Writer's Voice

Writer’s Voice is California State University, Chico’s literary arts reading series. Funded by contributions from alumni and friends, the Department of English, and the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, Writer’s Voice introduces contemporary writers to citizens of the North Valley. All readings are free and open to the public.

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Lia Purpura, Poetry and Creative Nonfiction

Reading from  All the Fierce Tethers (essays) and It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful (poems)

Tuesday, 13 April 2021

3:00-4:00 p.m. Pacific

Zoom Meeting ID and Link: 882 2896 3668, https://csuchico.zoom.us/j/88228963668?pwd=UkEvSzlWVUpOdDNzR1AwWlRyQjFPQT09

Passcode: Purpura

Lia Purpura, Poetry and Creative Nonfiction

Craft of Writing Talk: "The Ecology of Attention"

Thursday, 15 April 2021

3:00-4:00 p.m. Pacific

Zoom Meeting ID and Link: 835 8154 4591, https://csuchico.zoom.us/j/83581544591?pwd=N0VPV0NjQ1BXOElQS0pESEdVTnIrQT09

Passcode: Purpura

Lia Purpura is the author of nine collections of essays, poems, and translations.  A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for On Looking (essays, Sarabande Books), her awards include Guggenheim, NEA, and Fulbright Fellowships, as well as four Pushcart Prizes, the Associated Writing Programs Award in Nonfiction, and others.  Her work appears in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Orion, The Paris Review, The Georgia Review, Agni, Emergence, and elsewhere.  She lives in Baltimore, MD, where she is Writer in Residence at The University of Maryland, Baltimore County.  She has taught in the Rainier Writing Workshop’s MFA program, at Breadloaf Writers Conference, The University of Iowa’s Nonfiction MFA program and at conference, workshops, and graduate programs throughout the country.  Her newest collection of poems is It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful (Penguin) and her latest collection of essays is All the Fierce Tethers (Sarabande Books).

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