Ithaca College

The School of Humanities and Sciences and the Department of Writing are pleased to present acclaimed essayist Paisley Rekdal as part of this semester’s Distinguished Visiting Writers Series. She will read from her work at 7:30pm on Tuesday, October 5th in Clark Lounge, Phillips Hall. The reading is free and open to the public.

Rekdal is the author of a collection of personal essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee, as well as three collections of poetry. Her work has received a Village Voice Writers on the Verge Award, an NEA Fellowship, the University of Georgia Press’ Contemporary Poetry Series Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and the Laurence Goldstein Poetry Prize from Michigan Quarterly Review.

She will be presenting texts and images from Intimate, a hybrid photo-text memoir that combines poems, nonfiction, and fiction with photography, forthcoming from Tupelo Press in 2011. She teaches at the University of Utah.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Jack Wang at 607-274-3493 or wang@ithaca.edu. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.