Co-Sponsors: UConn Humanities Council, the English Department, the Waterbury Faculty Program Fund, and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
DATE: Tuesday October 20, 2015
TIME: 12:30 - 1:45 p.m.
LOCATION: UConn Waterbury, Room 333
Please RSVP by: Tuesday October 13, 2015
(203)-236-9924/9925, osher@uconn.edu
*This event is FREE and open to the public
Aracelis Girmay is the author of two books of poems: Teeth (Curbstone Press, 2007) and Kingdom Animalia (BOA Editions, 2011), and the author/illustrator of the collage-based picture book changing, changing, which was published by George Braziller in 2005.
Aracelis has received grants and fellowships in support of her projects from the NEA, Civitella Ranieri, the Jerome Foundation, the Watson Foundation, and the Cave Canem Foundation, among other programs. In March of 2015, she received The Whiting Foundation award, given annually to ten emerging writers in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama, based on early accomplishment and the promise of great literary work to come.
Aracelis taught community writing workshops with young people for several years, at which time she worked with the ACTION Project, a teen arts and social justice program in the Bronx. She has also taught at Queens College and is currently on the faculty of Drew University's low residency M.F.A. program, and at Hampshire College. She received her B.A. in documentary studies from Connecticut College and an M.F.A. in poetry from New York University.
For more information, contact: Angel Katiewicz/OLLI at 203-236-9924/angel.katiewicz@uconn.edu