We’re back at the Writers’ Center in February, beginning with a reading by three writers whose work is included in the new anthology, Illness & Grace, Terror & Transformation (Wishing Up Press).
Susan
Hodara is a writer who works as a freelance journalist and editor, and who
has been writing memoir for more than 15 years. Her articles have been published
in The New York Times, Communication Arts, salon.com, and more.
Her memoir pieces appear in the anthologies Illness & Grace, Terror & Transformation
(2007), The Westchester Review (2007), I Wanna be Sedated: 30 Writers
on Parenting Teenagers (2005), My Hearts First Steps (2003), and Surviving
Ophelia (2001). She is currently working on a booklength memoir about healing
an arthritic hip. She and her husband live in Mount Kisco, NY, and are the parents
of two collegeage daughters.
Joan
Potter’s articles and essays have been published in a wide variety of magazines,
newspapers, anthologies, and literary journals, such as The New York Times,
Rooted in Rock, Living North Country, and Perigee. She is
the author of three books, including African American Firsts: Famous, Little-
Known and Unsung Triumphs of Blacks in America. She edited, among other books,
Growing Up Strong: Four North Country Women Recall Their Lives, a collection
of memoirs produced in a writing workshop she led in the Adirondacks. She has
led memoir workshops in numerous venues, including a New York State prison, and
has taught memoir at the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center for eight years.
Gerri
Luce’s essay, “Sharp Edges,” examines her struggle with anorexia. Her background
is in marketing and social work. She continues to study writing at The Hudson
Valley Writers’ Center and in addition attended “Writing the Medical Experience”
intensive writing workshop at Sarah Lawrence College. She has been working on
a memoir about mental illness for the past year. “Sharp Edges” recently won honorable
mention in a national contest sponsored by The Writers Place.
This reading will be preceded by an afternoon memoir workshop with Joan Potter from 1 to 4 pm.
All readings include a question & answer period and a reception with books by the author(s) for sale.
Suggested
Donation: $5 ($3 for HVWC members and those under age 18)
Programs and events at The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center are made possible, in part, by grants from the Bydale Foundation, the David G. Taft Foundation, the Orchard Foundation, and the Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and by the Basic Program Support Grant of the Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government.