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Fran Wilde and Theodora Goss in Conversation at The Ivy Bookshop
For the launch of her poetry collection, Clock Star Rose Spine, Fran Wilde was in conversation with poet Theodora Goss at the Ivy Bookshop.
Medium: Poetry
Year: 2021
Details: 1hr run time.
Two-time Nebula Award-winner Fran Wilde has published eight novels, a poetry collection, and over 70 short stories for adults, teens, and kids. Her stories have been finalists for six Nebula Awards, a World Fantasy Award, four Hugo Awards, four Locus Awards, and a Lodestar. They include her Nebula- and Compton Crook-winning debut novel Updraft, and her Nebula-winning, Best of NPR 2019, debut Middle Grade novel Riverland. Her short stories appear in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Tor.com, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Shimmer, Nature, Uncanny Magazine, and multiple years' best anthologies.
Rosemarie (MiMi Zannino) Law has been a teaching artist with the MSAC since 1989, originally as a poet-in-residence, and additionally as a living history performance artist portraying the American poet, Emily Dickinson, and the American spy, Virginia Hall in one-woman dramatic shows. She has conducted creative writing and recitation workshops with over 10,000 students and teachers throughout the State, helping them create, recite and publish original poetry as well as compete in the national Poetry Out Loud Program.
Leslie Bumstead is a poet, writer, and teaching artist in Maryland and DC. She currently teaches creative writing workshops for incarcerated adults in several Maryland prisons, poetry to non-speaking autistic teens and young adults, and literature, composition and creative writing to teens at community art space Rhizome DC. She co-creates distance-learning arts curricula for incarcerated people with artist Carien Quiroga. Her collection of poems, Cipher/Civilian, was published by Edge Books in 2005.