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Award-winning poet and memoirist Brittany Perham, winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize and the AWP Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction, reads from her work along with several creative writing seniors. The C.K. Williams Reading Series showcases senior thesis students of the Program in Creative Writing with established writers as special guests. Perham’s books will be available to purchase and have signed.Brittany Perham’s memoir, Executrix (University of Georgia Press), was published in September and won the AWP Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction. She is also the author of Double Portrait (W.W. Norton), which won the Barnard Women Poets Prize and was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award; The Curiosities (Free Verse Editions); and, with Kim Addonizio, the collaborative word/art project The Night Could Go in Either Direction (SHP). Her writing has received support from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Hemingway House, the James Merrill House Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, the Wallace Stegner Fellowship Program, and Yaddo. New work in poetry and prose may be found or is forthcoming in The Cortland Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry, Prairie Schooner and Tupelo Quarterly. Perham taught for fifteen years at Stanford University before joining the English faculty at Endicott College. She lives in San Francisco and Massachusetts.
This event is cosponsored by the Lewis Center for the Arts and Labyrinth Books.
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Labyrinth Books Princeton, 122 Nassau St,Princeton,NJ,United States
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