Griffis is an award-winning independent journalist based in Los Angeles, California. n June 2017 Nadia was elected President of PEN South Africa where, along with the PEN SA board, she has worked to protect writers at risk, defend freedom of expression and support the literary landscape of South Africa. She has presented programs for the BBC and her work has been featured on CNN. Her personal essays have appeared in the Mail and the Guardian, the Johannesburg Review of Books and The Los Angeles Review of Books. “An Imperfect Blessing” was named one of This is Africa’s best African novels and was on 2020’s Lonely Planet reading list. Her debut novel “An Imperfect Blessing” was long-listed for the South African Sunday Times Fiction Award and shortlisted for the University of Johannesburg Prize and the Pan-African Etisalat Prize for Literature. Her plays have garnered various theatre awards and nominations and been staged locally and internationally. Nadia Davids is a South African writer, theatre-maker and scholar. NADIA DAVIDS | SEPTEMBER RESIDENTĪuthor talk at a Roaring Fork Valley school She lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with her rescue cats, the most recent of which is a fluffy orange cat named Caesar, who has two missing teeth and decided to adopt her in 2021. She is currently a candidate for a Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) in Creative Writing and Literature at Harvard with an anticipated graduation date in 2023. She was the keynote speaker at the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Discovery Days at the University of Manitoba in November 2021. She is also a lecturer with the Max Rady College of Medicine. She has maintained a busy family practice in southern Manitoba since 2017, performing clinical duties, obstetrics, inpatient hospital work and providing care to personal care homes. Most of her writing focuses on the complex nature of identity and finding one’s place in the world, while navigating a nuanced understanding of what it means to claim a place in one’s culture and (potentially many) families. She was adopted at the end of the Sixties Scoop in Manitoba, Canada, and was raised in a large extended Mennonite family with over 30 Indigenous, adopted family members. She is currently working on her first memoir with Doubleday Canada. Her pieces have appeared in Salon, The Globe and Mail, Maclean’s, Huffington Post Canada, This Magazine and The Canadian Family Physician. 3rd St.)īrittany Penner is an Indigenous Métis writer and family physician. Her work appears in the Boston Review, Latino Book Review, Pleiades, The Wandering Song: An Anthology of the Central American Diaspora and elsewhere. She’s currently at work on a novel called “The Volcano Daughters,” which is forthcoming from Pantheon Books in 2024. She’s been awarded grants from the Rackham Institute, a Tyson Award, the Aura Estrada Prize, the Under the Volcano Sandra Cisneros Fellowship, the Periplus Collective, and Tin House. Gina Balibrera earned an MFA in Prose from the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program, where she was also a postgraduate fellow. Born in Taiwan and raised in Southern California, she currently lives in Los Angeles. Keck and George & Arlene Cheng Research Fellow at the Huntington Library, where she worked on an archival project on gender and racial violence in 19th-century Los Angeles Chinatown (the subject of her next book). Jean is a board member at Kaya Press, an independent publisher of experimental writing from the Asian Pacific Islander diaspora. She is the 2023 Mary Routt Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at Scripps College. Jean is a Kundiman fellow and has been a writer-in-residence at Hedgebrook, I-Park Foundation, MacDowell, Vermont Studio Center and others. Her writing appears in New York Times Magazine, The Cut, Electric Literature, Los Angeles Times, Georgia Review and elsewhere. Jean Chen Ho is the author of “Fiona and Jane,” named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and one of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022. In conversation with Mitzi Rapkin, host of the “First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing” podcast
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Public events are FREE and open to all registration is requested (school visits are not open to the public). Each author also will participate in a free community event (see below for details). Each writer will spend three weeks in Woody Creek, Colorado, working on a project-in-progress. BRUCE BERGER FACULTY CHAIR – ENDOWMENT CAMPAIGNĪspen Words, in partnership with the Catto Shaw Foundation, is proud to introduce the five authors participating in the 2023 Writers in Residence program.Aspen Institute Event Health & Safety Standards.
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