Ithaca College

The School of Humanities and Sciences and the Department of Writing are pleased to present National Book Critics Circle Award winner in criticism Eula Biss as part of this semester’s Distinguished Visiting Writers Series. She will read from her work at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, March 9th in Clark Lounge, Campus Center. The reading is free and open to everyone.

Eula Biss is the author of two books, The Balloonists (2002) and Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. A collection of lyric essays about America’s complicated racial landscape, Notes from No Man’s Land was hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “a beautiful exercise in consciousness.”

Biss holds a BA in nonfiction writing from Hampshire College and an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. She is currently an Artist in Residence at Northwestern University, where she teaches nonfiction writing, and she is a founding editor of Essay Press, a new press dedicated to innovative nonfiction. Her essays have recently appeared in The Best Creative Nonfiction and the Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Nonfiction as well as in The Believer, the North American Review, and Harper’s, among other places.

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.