The Department of Writing proudly presents a reading by three faculty authors who've had new books published this fall: novelist Eleanor Henderson (The Twelve-Mile Straight), poet Christine Kitano (Sky Country), and essayist Catherine Taylor (You, Me, and the Violence). The reading takes place this Tuesday, Dec. 12, at 6 p.m. in the Handwerker Gallery (Gannett Center).
Copies of the new books will be available for purchase and author-signing. This event is free and open to the public.
Read more about these authors below.
Eleanor Henderson was born in Greece, grew up in Florida, and attended Middlebury College and the University of Virginia, where she earned her MFA. Her debut novel Ten Thousand Saints was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2011 by The New York Times and a finalist for the Award for First Fiction from The Los Angeles Times. Her stories and essays have appeared in publications including Agni, Ninth Letter, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Poets & Writers, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Best American Short Stories. With Anna Solomon she is also co-editor of Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today’s Best Women Writers (FSG, 2014). An associate professor at Ithaca College, she lives in Ithaca, New York, with her husband and two sons. Her second novel, The Twelve-Mile Straight, was published by Ecco in the fall of 2017.
Christine Kitano is the author of two collections of poetry, Sky Country (BOA Editions) and Birds of Paradise (Lynx House Press). She teaches courses in creative writing, poetry, and Asian American literature at Ithaca College. Her most recent project, Who You: The Issei, a co-edited collection of oral histories about the first generation of Japanese immigrants in Hawai‘i, is forthcoming from the University of Hawai‘i Press / Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i. In January 2018, she will begin teaching in the low-residency MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
Catherine Taylor teaches in the Department of Writing at Ithaca College and is the Co-Director of the Image Text Ithaca Low-residency MFA program. Taylor is a writer and editor who works on a wide range of nonfiction forms–from documentary and literary journalism to lyric essays, and hybrid-genre work. She is the author of three books: You, Me, and the Violence; Apart, a memoir and political history that combines prose, poetry, cultural theory, and found texts from South African archives, and Giving Birth: A Journey Into the World of Mothers and Midwives, which won the Lamaze International Birth Advocate Award. Taylor has worked as a producer, writer, and researcher on a number of documentary films, including The Exiles, which won an Emmy award for historical programming. She was a Founding Editor of Essay Press, and she recently completed a video essay on flamenco dance and the vitality needed for political resistance.
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