Before our spring classes begin, The Writing Institute is pleased to invite you to an evening to meet teachers, talk with students, and learn more about our upcoming workshops. This is your opportunity to network and discover the synergies you have with other student novelists, poets, and nonfiction writers within the Sarah Lawrence College community.
Be sure to ask our students who they’ve studied with, what classes they’ve taken, what they are enrolled in for this spring. Befriend new writing buddies in the Wrexham House living room on campus where ideas abound. You will be surrounded by trees and the lovely still of winter … and the guidance of both the long-tenured and the newbies among us. Here’s more about our readers.
Jimin Han’s forthcoming novel is A Small Revolution (Spring 2017). Jimin received her BA from Cornell University and her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Han’s writing can be found at NPR's "Weekend America," The Rumpus, and Entropy, among others. Jimin teaches many aspects of writing the novel at The Writing Institute. Follow her tweets @jiminhanwriter.
Veera Hiranandani’s novel The Whole Story of Half a Girl was a Sydney Taylor Notable Book and a South Asian Book Award Finalist. A former editor at Simon & Schuster, Hiranandani teaches creative writing at The Writing Institute and Veera is working on a new novel for young readers, The Night Diary, due in 2018. Learn more @veerahira.
Susan Kleinman's short stories have appeared in Inkwell, The Baltimore Review, William and Mary Review, JewishFiction.net. Her book reviews and essays have been published in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Redbook, and The Forward, among others. Susan is our 2010 Gurfein Fellow and has taught writing at many schools including the Writing Institute and the Bronxville Adult School.
Annabel Monaghan is the author of the YA novels, A Girl Named Digit, and Double Digit, co-author of Click! She authored Does This Volvo Make My Butt Look Big?, essays for moms, and Monaghan writes for The Rye Record, The Week, and The Huffington Post. Annabel has a BA in English from Duke University, and an MBA from The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania.
Eileen Palma's romantic comedy Worth the Weight was selected as a compelling read for Barnes & Noble's Nook First program, among other awards. Palma’s views on juggling motherhood and writing were featured on The Balance Project. Her essays have appeared in Blunt Moms, The Momoir Project, and Her View From Home. With a dual BA in English and Education from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Eileen is also an alumna of The Writing Institute.
Alexandra Soiseth has taught personal writing and memoir for over 15 years. She is the author of Choosing You, recipient of a Canada Arts Council grant, and an Ontario Arts Council grant. Soiseth is the former managing editor and communications director of Global City Review, a New York City based literary magazine and Alexandra’s work has appeared on babycenter.com, literarymama.com, in McGill Street Magazine, The Ryersonian, and on the radio program LifeRattle, among others.
Barbara Solomon Josselsohn’s latest novel, The Last Dreamer, debuted last year. She is also a freelance magazine writer and journalist specializing in home and family topics. Barbara’s work has appeared in The New York Times, Parents Magazine, American Baby, Consumers Digest, Writer’s Digest, Brain, Teen Magazine, Westchester Magazine, Westchester Home, and others.
Wendy Townsend’s third novel, Blue Iguana, was shortlisted for The Green Earth Book Award. Her YA novel, Lizard Love received a Booklist Starred Review. Townsend’s novel, The Sundown Rule, was among the Kirkus Reviews best children’s books of 2011. Wendy has a BS from Empire State College and an MFA from Vermont College. Wendy lives in the Catskills with her husband, one cat (Buster), and five iguanas (Sebastian, Emo, Ava, Luna, and Che).
Please join us for this special Spring 2017 Faculty Reading & Open House, Thursday, January 26th, from 6:30 – 8:30 pm. RSVP here. It’s free and open to all.
We hope to have the chance to talk with you.
Sarah Lawrence College
Wrexham House Living Room
45 Wrexham Road
Bronxville, NY 10708
Free parking in adjacent lot.
Registration is no longer available because the registration deadline has passed.