Ithaca College

This Tuesday (11/17), the Department of Writing's Handwerker Reading Series will feature readings of creative prose by faculty writer Professor Catherine Taylor and student writers Kimberly Nicolas and Gretchen Hohmeyer. This reading will take place at 6:00pm in the Handwerker Gallery (Gannett Center) and will feature the following writers:

Gretchen Hohmeyer is a senior Writing and English double major with an Honors minor. Her nonfiction has appeared in magazines such as Cicadan, and her fiction and poetry have appeared in several small print anthologies. Her graduate goal is to earn a PhD in Children's Literature

Kimberly Nicolas is a junior Planned Studies major in Counter-storying with minors in Women's & Gender Studies and African Diaspora Studies. She is co-president of Sister 2 Sister, an empowerment group for women of color on IC's campus, as well as the Web Editor for Stillwater Magazine. As an enthusiast of immersive media and a hopelessly curious human, Kim experiments with interdisciplinary ways of telling stories with a focus on creating narratives that empower oppressed and marginalized groups of people.

Catherine Taylor works on a wide range of nonfiction forms–from documentary and literary journalism to lyric essays, hybrid-genre writing, and image-text projects. She is the author of Apart, a combined memoir and political history about South Africa, and ofGiving Birth: A Journey Into the World of Mothers and Midwives, which won the Lamaze International Birth Advocate Award. Taylor is Co-Director of the new Image Text MFA at Ithaca College.

This reading will be free and open to the public. So please come out and celebrate this exciting range of voices!

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Jacob White at jrwhite@ithaca.edu or (904) 501-9860. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.