Reading: Brenda Miller--May 14th, 7:30 PM

Prose writer Brenda Miller will read from her newest collection of essays, Blessings of the Animals, at Marylhurst University on May 14th at 7:30, in the Old Library. All are welcome, please come join us for this reading.

Brenda's new collection includes two Pushcart Prize winning essays (“Blessing of the Animals” and “Raging Waters”). Her essay, "Table of Figures," was selected for inclusion in The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 3, to be published in 2009 by W.W. Norton.  Brenda Miller is the author of Season of the Body (Sarabande Books, 2002) and co-author of Tell it Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction (McGraw-Hill, 2003). Her work has received five Pushcart Prizes and has been published in many journals, including Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, The Sun, Utne Reader, The Georgia Review, and The Missouri Review.

Miller is an Associate Professor of English at Western Washington University and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Bellingham Review.

To hear an excellent interview with Brenda Miller about Creative Nonfiction go to:

http://www.creativenonfiction.org/brevity/craft.htm