Image from "The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion," written and illustrated by Henry Darger
We will explore multitudinous realities, consider the nature of realism, examine ourselves as cultural artifacts, and begin to figure out what it all means for our writing. Please bring a pen and paper.
Nelly Reifler: BA, Hampshire College. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College. Author of a short-story collection, See Through, and novel, Elect H. Mouse State Judge; fiction in magazines and journals, including Story, Tweed's, Bomb, McSweeney’s, Nerve, Black Book, The Milan Review, and Lucky Peach, as well as in the anthologies 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11, Lost Tribe: New Jewish Fiction from the Edge, Found Magazine’s Requiem for a Paper Bag, and No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine. Recipient of a Henfield Prize, a UAS Explorations Prize, and a Rotunda Gallery Emerging Curator grant for work with fiction and art. Writer-in-residence, Western Michigan University, 2014; editor at Post Road, 2010-present. Sarah Lawrence, 2002–