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Published on October 17th, 2016 | by University Communications

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Literature for Lunch with writer Elizabeth Powell

As part of the Literature for Lunch series, sponsored by the Department of Language Studies and the Arts, novelist Elizabeth Powell will deliver a reading and a fruitful Q&A session from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m. on Wednesday, November 2, in TECO Hall in the School of Business building. This opportunity to be entertained and inspired by Powell’s writing is free and open to English majors, aspiring writers, bookworms, and all creative minds.

Elizabeth A.I. Powell is the author of The Republic of Self, a New Issue First Book Prize winner, selected by C.K. Williams. Her second book of poems, Willy Loman’s Reckless Daughter: Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances, won the 2015 Anhinga Robert Dana Prize, selected by Maureen Seaton. Her poetry has appeared in the Pushcart Prize Anthology 2013, Alaska Quarterly Review, Barrow Street, Ecotone, Harvard Review, Indiana Review, Missouri Review, Mississippi Review, Slope, Sugarhouse Review, Ploughshares, Post Road, Zocalo Public Square, and elsewhere. She is editor of Green Mountains Review and associate professor of creative writing at Johnson State College. She also serves on the faculty of the low-residency MFA in creative writing at the University of Nebraska-Omaha and the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in writing and publishing. She lives in Vermont.

For more information, contact Megan Orendorf, administrator of events and special programs, at jennifer.orendorf@saintleo.edu.

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