Poet and essayist Lia Purpura will be discussing and reading from her essays, Feb. 11
Zoom
8:45 am
– 9:40 am
Poet and essayist Lia Purpura will be discussing and reading from her essays on 2/11 from 8:45-9:40 on Zoom. Her latest collections are All the Fierce Tethers (essays, Sarabande Books) and It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful (poems, Viking/Penguin). She's the author of three other essay collections and three other collections of poems.
Her essay collection, On Looking, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, the Fulbright Foundation (Translation, Warsaw, Poland), and the Maryland State Arts Council. Her work has appeared in the following (among other venues): Agni Magazine, Ecotone, Emergence, Field, The Georgia Review, Orion, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review and has been reprinted in Best American Essays and The Pushcart Anthologies.
Purpura has served as Writer in Residence at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Loyola University, and has taught at The Rainier Writing Workshop, The Breadloaf Writers Conference, The Chautauqua Institution, The University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, The Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference and many other places. She lives in Baltimore, MD.
Meeting ID: 827 3214 4526
Passcode: 788613