Nonfiction Writer Eula Biss to Read at Lindsay J. Cropper Memorial Writers Series

Nonfiction Writer Eula Biss to Read at Lindsay J. Cropper Memorial Writers Series

Date and Time

Saturday, March 14, 2015

This event occurred in the past

  • Saturday, March 14, 2015 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Location

Virtual

5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110

Cost

Free

Details

We've had a date change for this event: it will now be held on SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 2015, at 7 p.m. in the same location, Warren Auditorium in Mother Rosalie Hill Hall. (it was formerly scheduled for Friday, March 13)

The Department of English welcomes fiction writer Eula Biss to our spring semester Lindsay J. Cropper Memorial Writers Series reading to be held on Saturday, March 14, 2015, at 7 p.m. in Warren Auditorium, Mother Rosalie Hill Hall.  There will be a Question & Answer session after her reading, along with a Dessert Reception and Book Signing. 

Eula Biss is the author of three books of nonfiction, On Immunity: An Inoculation (Graywolf 2014), Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays (Graywolf 2009), and The Balloonists (Hanging Loose 2002). She holds a B.A. in nonfiction writing from Hampshire College and a MFA. in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. Her work is currently supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Howard Foundation Fellowship and has been recognized by a Jaffe Writers' Award, a 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library, a Pushcart Prize, and a National Book Critics Circle Award. Her essays have recently appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Best Creative Nonfiction, and the Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Nonfiction, as well as in The Believer, Gulf Coast, Columbia, Ninth Letter, The North American Review, The Iowa Review, The Seneca Review, and Harper's. She teaches at Northwestern University.

Reading is free and open to the public.  All are welcome!