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SUMMARY:First Friday Book Talk & Reading with Jessica Hendry Nelson
DESCRIPTION:This monthly online (Zoom) reading series called First Friday Readings features authors with Nebraska connections\, national presence\, and a newly published book. The hourlong event\, moderated by Larksong director Karen Shoemaker\, will include both the author’s reading and Q&A with the audience. The event is free\, but registration is required to receive the link. \nJessica Hendry Nelson’s upcoming memoir Joy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief was the winner of the AWP Sue William Silverman Prize in Creative Nonfiction. She is the author of the memoir If Only You People Could Follow Directions (2014)\, which was selected as a best debut book by the Indies Introduce New Voices program\, the Indies Next List by the American Booksellers’ Association\, named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Review\, received starred reviews in Kirkus and Publisher’s Weekly\, and reviewed nationally in print and on NPR—including twice in (O) Oprah Magazine. It was also a finalist for the Vermont Book Award. She is also co-author of the textbook and anthology Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writers’ Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury\, 2021) along with the writer Sean Prentiss . Her work has appeared in The Threepenny Review\, Prairie Schooner\, North American Review\, Tin House\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, The Rumpus\, The Carolina Quarterly\, Columbia Journal\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, Crab Orchard Review\, PANK\, Drunken Boat and elsewhere. She is Assistant Professor in the MFA program and English Department at Virginia Commonwealth University and on faculty in the MFA Program at the University of Nebraska in Omaha. She lives in Richmond\, Virginia.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/first-friday-book-talk-reading-with-jessica-hendry-nelson/
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