Aetna Celebration of Creative Nonfiction Series: author Emily Rapp Black to read at the University of Connecticut
The University of Connecticut’s Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce that author Emily Rapp Black will read from her work for all who are interested on Tuesday, April 16, 2019. The reading will take place at 6:00 pm in the UConn Bookstore in Storrs Center.
Emily Rapp Black is the author of Poster Child: A Memoir and The Still Point of the Turning World, which was a New York Times Bestseller, an Editor’s Pick, and a finalist for the PEN Center Literary Award in Nonfiction.
A former Fulbright scholar, she was educated at Harvard University, Trinity College-Dublin, Saint Olaf College, and the University of Texas-Austin, where she was a James A. Michener Fellow in Fiction and Poetry.
While at Harvard, she worked with the GLBT Speaker’s Foundation (SpeakOut), an organization that professionally trained speakers to tell their coming out stories in high schools, churches, and other public forums in an effort to increase awareness and understanding between GLBT and straight communities.
The Creative Writing Program aims to introduce and engage both undergraduate and graduate students in various writing courses including fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, drama, screenwriting, and more. These courses are offered to students of all majors in order to engage and include all that are interested in joining this growing creative writing community at the University of Connecticut.
The reading, sponsored by the Aetna Chair of Writing and co-sponsored with the Creative Writing Program and the UConn Bookstore, is free and open to the public. The UConn Bookstore is located at 1 Royce Circle, Storrs, CT 06268, and can be contacted at 860-486-8525. For more information, please visit the Creative Writing Program’s website at www.creativewriting@uconn.edu
For more information, contact: English Department at 860-486-2141