The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) conference was in Los Angeles from March 27-30th this year. Many Penn Staters were in attendance! Check out some familiar faces below.
Creative Writing Director, Julia Spicher Kasdorf with Aldon L. Nielsen, The George and Barbara Kelly Professor Emeritus, fumbling with his phone to snap a selfie in the hallway.
Professor of Creative Writing, Elizabeth Kadetsky with co-panelists for “From Submission to Page: A Day in the Life of a Literary Magazine Editor.” Left to right: Stephanie G’Schwind (Colorado Review), Gerald Maa (Georgia Review), Kyla Kupferstein Torres (Callaloo), Elizabeth Kadetsky (New England Review), and Emily Mitchell (New England Review).
PSU MFA grad Rachel Mennies speaks to a full room on the panel titled, “The Personal is Always Political.”
Ellen Skirvin, Assistant Director of Creative Writing at Penn State, poses at the West Virginia University Press table with the book she co-edited, This Book is Free and Yours to Keep: Notes from the Appalachian Prison Book Project.
PSU MFA grad, Kimberly Q. Andrews spotted by a potted palm, presented on a panel titled, “All Mixed Up: The Experience of Writing Mixed Race/Ethnicity”
Spotted in the hallway: Timothy Loperfido, fiction writer and PSU Assistant Teaching Professor of English.
PSU MFA and PhD, Geffrey Davis at the presenter’s table after a moving talk about his work with writers in an Arkansas prison on the panel, “The Sky Above the Roof: Community and Creativity in Carceral Environments”
Spotted on the streets of LA: PSU MFA grad Julie Swarstad Johnson in town for AWP with The University of Arizona Poetry Center, where she works.
Spotted in the Bookfair, PSU MFA grad Alyse Bensel with her new book, Spoil, Stephen F. Austin University Press.
We look forward to catching up with more Penn Staters next year at AWP in Baltimore!
