The careers and words of three rising writers will be
explored in “Emerging Writers: An Evening of Poetry and Prose with Barbara
DeCesare, Elena Georgiou and Selah Saterstrom” on Tuesday, May 11, at 7:30 p.m. in Old Chapel.
The event, free and open to the public, is sponsored by
the English Department, Women's Studies, the Dean of Students Office and
Schaffer Library.
Barbara DeCesare
is a 2004 Pushcart nominee whose poetry and fiction has appeared in more than
50 major literary publications. Her collection of poems, jigsaweyesore (Anti-Man Press 1999), is being adapted for a musical
production in New York City. She is
the poet laureate of Baltimore's
Number 1 rock radio station, WIYY FM 98.
The mother of three, she lives in Pennsylvania
where she works as a domestic law paralegal. The Baltimore
Sun says that Barbara's work is “what thunder looks like in writing.”
Elena Georgiou's
first book of poetry, Mercy Mercy Me
(Painted Leaf Press 2000), received the Lambda Literary Award for poetry and
was a finalist in the Publishing Triangle Award. The book was reissued by the University
of Wisconsin Press in the spring of
2003. With Michael Lassell, she co-edited the poetry anthology The World in Us. She has received many
major awards and fellowships including an Astraea Emerging Writers Award and a
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. She is the coordinator of the MFA
in Creative Writing program at Hunter
College, where she also teaches
poetry. She also serves on the MFA faculty at Goddard
College. She lives in Brooklyn.
Selah Saterstrom's
experimental fiction has appeared in many literary journals including 3rd Bed, Monkey Puzzle and Tarpaulin Sky. She is an editor at The Ensign Literary Journal. Her first
novel, The Pink Institution, was
published by Coffee House Press in April. The Seattle
writer Rebecca Brown has said, “I am confident The Pink Institution is only the first of many astoundingly
beautiful, brutally disturbing works of art.” The author Jeanne Mackin has
called the book “a masterful debut.” Born and raised in the region
around Natchez, Miss.,
Selah lives in Asheville, N.C.,
and teaches at Warren Wilson
College.
A reception will follow the event. For more information,
call ext. 6620.