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.
Andrea
Rosenhaft’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.