BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations DESCRIPTION:Visiting Nonfiction Writer Amy Wright\, Nov. 10\n\nBy Stacie Wo rrel\n\n \n\nThe English Department’s creative writing program features vis iting nonfiction writer Amy Wright giving a public reading of her work on N ov. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Galbreath Chapel.\n\n \n\nWright is an award-winning essayist. Her essays appear in Lit Hub\, DIAGRAM\, Georgia Review\, Kenyon Review\, and elsewhere. Wright is also the author of three poetry books an d six chapbooks.\n\n \n\n“Amy Wright achieves a range and depth in her work that continually dazzles me\,” said Eric LeMay\, associate professor and S tocker Professor of Creative Writing in the College of Arts & Sciences. “Sh e's a poet\, an essayist\, a science writer\, a nature writer\, an experime ntalist\, a mixed-media explorer. Each new work she creates is a generous a dventure of insight and possibility.”\n\n \n\nWright’s latest book Paper Co ncert: A Conversation in the Round\, published in 2021\, is a book-length e ssay that weaves together a multitude of conversations Wright has had with philosophers\, writers\, musicians\, and other thinkers. In the opening cha pter\, Wright calls these thinkers “representatives of the human population \,” noting\, “Some of them are famous\, some will be\, some should be—but a ll refract the light of the unknowable mystery of the self.”\n\n \n\nWright has received two Peter Taylor Fellowships to The Kenyon Review Writers Wor kshop\, an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission\ , and a fellowship to Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is serving as the 2022 Wayne G. Basler Chair of Excellence at East Tennessee State Un iversity. She is also the senior editor of Zone 3 journal\, the nonfiction editor of Zone 3 Press\, and coordinator of Creative Writing at Austin Peay State University. DTEND:20221111T013000Z DTSTAMP:20240921T094236Z DTSTART:20221111T003000Z GEO:39.326316;-82.099419 LOCATION:Galbreath Chapel SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Visiting Nonfiction Writer Amy Wright\, Nov. 10 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41057621653222 URL:https://calendar.ohio.edu/event/visiting_nonfiction_writer_amy_wright_n ov_10 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR