Four Outstanding Authors to Visit UMass Dartmouth on March 20th – Claire T. Carney Library Associates

What: Four Outstanding Authors to visit the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Where: MacLean Campus Center at UMass Dartmouth (Park in Lot 6)
When: Sunday, March 20, 2011 ~ 10:30 AM
Tickets: $25 or free to students with an current university ID (UMass Pass).

Join the Claire T. Carney Library Associates for an opportunity to meet four outstanding authors who will talk about their creative writing process. Enjoy a light brunch while listening to the authors discuss and read from their books. Includes an author meet and greet and book signing.

Anne LeClaire

Grew up in Western Massachusetts, has worked as a radio broadcaster, an actress and journalist. She has taught writing on Cape Cod, France, Ireland and Jamaica, and to women in prison. Land’s End (1985) Listening Below the Noise: A Meditation on the Practice of Silence (2009) The Law of Bound Hearts (2004) and The Lavender Hour (2007.)

Ben Mazer

Lives in Boston, where he is a contributing editor to Fulcrum: An Annual of Poetry andAesthetics. His poetry collections include The Foundations of Poetry Mathematics (2008), Johanna Poems (2007), and White Cities (1995).

Sondra Perl

Sondra Perl is Professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the recipient of both a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Carnegie Foundation’s Professor of the Year award. On Austrian Soil: Teaching Those I Was Taught to Hate (2005) Writing True: The Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction (2006) Through Teachers’ Eyes: Portraits of Writing Teachers at Work (1986).

Hank Phillippi Ryan

Widely known as a highly prized Channel 7 NEWS reporter, “Hank Investigates” she is also a best-selling mystery author, featuring a fictional Boston TV journalist who solves crimes in the Charlotte McNally Mystery Series. Investigative reporter Charlotte McNally is an expert at keeping things confident.

Additional Information:

Tickets are $25 and may be purchased at the door or in advance by mailing a check

payable to Carney Library Associates, 1032 Sterling St., New Bedford, MA 02745.

All proceeds benefit the Claire T. Carney Library at UMass Dartmouth.

Students with ID may attend the author presentations at no charge.

Information: 508 999-8671 or 508 995-3528

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