The NonfictioNOW Conference was recently held at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. Penn State Professor Elizabeth Kadetsky moderated and spoke on a panel entitled “Research: Seeking Neither Fact nor Truth, but the Spaces in Between” and she appeared as a panelist on “Shared Shadows: Exploring Mysticism, Spirituality, and the Occult in Cross-Cultural Nonfiction.” She also met with contributors and readers for New England Review, where Professor Kadetsky serves as Nonfiction Editor.

Professor Kadetsky also ran into some familiar Penn State faces while at the conference, including Penn State MFA alumni Lucy Bryan and Jami Nakamura Lin.

In 2022, Lucy Bryan published In Between Places: A Memoir in Essays. Last November, Jami Nakamura Lin visited Penn State to read from her memoir The Night Parade (2023) and met with BA/MA students as part of the Mary E. Rolling Reading Series.