Award-winning magazine writer, essayist, memoirist, and Penn State alumna Vicki Glembocki will offer a reading as part of the Mary E. Rolling Reading Series. The reading is free and open to the public and will be held in Foster Auditorium in Paterno Library on Thursday, October 10, at 7:30 pm.

Glembocki has written for many established publications including Parents, Women’s Health, The Daily Beast, Philadelphia, Salon, More, Playboy, and Ladies Home Journal. Currently, she is a contributing editor and columnist at Reader’s Digest and a Writer at Large at Philadelphia Magazine. Previously she was the articles director at the Philadelphia Magazine. Additionally, Glembocki is the author of the 2009 memoir The Second Nine Months: One Woman Tells the Real Truth About Becoming a Mom: Finally.

Vicki Glembocki’s large collection of profiles, personal essays, and long-form narratives show her mastery and attention to detail. For The Penn Stater Magazine, she has profiled notable alumni such as Modern Family star Ty Burrell. Her “Suburbanista” column in the Philadelphia Magazine has been described as “wry and subversive” by the City and Regional Magazine awards, which awarded her Best Column in 2014.  And her column for Reader’s Digest called “You be the Judge” has inspired and generated much discussion and a committed reader base since 2013.

Glembocki has served as an editor for The Penn Stater Magazine and Pitt Magazine, and has worked in public relations for Dartmouth University. In addition to writing, Glembocki also serves as a consultant for many magazines and publications on editorial content and strategies. Currently, she resides in Atlanta with her husband and daughters.

Glembocki received both her BA (’93) and MFA (’02) from Penn State, with a focus in nonfiction writing. One article, called “A Ring in Her Navel”, originally written for an undergraduate creative nonfiction class taught by Penn State professor Toby Thompson was published in Playboy – it’s a piece that Thompson says he still teaches in his classes. Glembocki also judged the 2016 Toby Thompson Prize for Literary Nonfiction as part of the English Department Writing Awards.

The Mary E. Rolling Reading Series is a program offered by Penn State’s Creative Writing Program in English. The series receives generous support from the College of the Liberal Arts; the Department of English; the Joseph L. Grucci Poetry Endowment; the Mary E. Rolling Lectureship in Creative Writing; and University Libraries.  A full list of readings in the 2019-20 series can be found at https://creativewriting.psu.edu/.

(Glembocki photo: provided by author)

(The Modern Man: The Penn Stater Magazine)