BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Greensboro Bound - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Greensboro Bound X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://greensborobound.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Greensboro Bound REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T170000 DTSTAMP:20260501T115338 CREATED:20220325T213608Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220522T025305Z UID:8736-1653235200-1653238800@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Just Bring Yourself: A Conversation with Ann Hood and Julia Ridley Smith DESCRIPTION:Advanced registration for this event is closed. However\, you may "walk-up" and register onsite.  \n\n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nJoin us for a conversation about the pleasures and challenges of writing memoir. When mining material from their own lives\, how do writers decide what to include and what to let go? How much (or little) are family members and friends included in the research and writing? We’ll also talk about the role of humor in memoir and how these writers approach memoir differently from (or similarly to) the fiction they write. With ANN HOOD and JULIA RIDLEY SMITH. Hosted by MOLLY SENTELL HAILE. \n  \nYou may also be interested in: \n• Memoir Plus: A Conversation on Hybrid Memoir\n• $ WORKSHOP Down the Rabbit Hole of Your Own Life: A Creative Writing Lab with Laurie Stone\n• Lost Mothers: Memoirs of Longing\n• $ WORKSHOP Writing from the Body with Nicole Lungerhausen \nANN HOOD is the author of the bestselling novels The Knitting Circle\, The Obituary Writer and The Book That Matters Most. Her memoir\, Comfort: A Journey Through Grief\, was a NYT Editors Choice and was named one of the top ten nonfiction books of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly. She lives in Rhode Island and NYC. \nJULIA RIDLEY SMITH is the author of a memoir\, The Sum of Trifles (University of Georgia Press\, 2021). She’s published fiction in Alaska Quarterly Review\, Electric Literature\, The Southern Review\, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction has appeared in Ecotone\, the New England Review\, and Southern Cultures\, and was recognized as notable in The Best American Essays. She has taught creative writing and literature at UNC Greensboro and is the 2021–22 Kenan Visiting Writer at UNC Chapel Hill. \nMOLLY SENTELL HAILE is a writer and educator whose short stories and nonfiction have appeared in Oxford American\, The North Carolina Literary Review\, Epiphany\, O. Henry Magazine\, and elsewhere. She was awarded the Doris Betts Fiction Prize and is a Pushcart and O. Henry Award nominee. Her work received a Notable designation in The Best American Nonrequired Reading. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s MFA in Creative Writing\, she currently teaches creative writing classes for people with cancer\, survivors\, and caregivers at Hirsch Wellness Network in Greensboro and is at work on her first novel. \n  URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/hood-smith/ LOCATION:Van Dyke Performance Space\, Greensboro Cultural Center\, 200 N Davie Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401\, United States CATEGORIES:Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T150000 DTSTAMP:20260501T115338 CREATED:20220325T210840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220522T025353Z UID:8498-1653228000-1653231600@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Lost & Found & Forgetting: Memoir as an Act of Moving Forward DESCRIPTION:Advanced registration for this event is closed. However\, you may "walk-up" and register onsite.  \n\n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nWith KATHRYN SCHULZ and ALEXIS ORGERA. These two memoirs examine the pain of losing fathers\, but something else is found in the process of loss\, in the process of writing\, and in the process of thinking about loved ones. These are powerful looks at how vital an engagement with a difficult past becomes to a hopeful future. As a bonus\, moderator CASEY CEP has a prominent role in one book’s reengagement with life. \nYou may also be interested in: \n• Memoir Plus: A Conversation on Hybrid Memoir\n• $ WORKSHOP Down the Rabbit Hole of Your Own Life: A Creative Writing Lab with Laurie Stone\n• Lost Mothers: Memoirs of Longing\n• $ WORKSHOP Writing from the Body with Nicole Lungerhausen\n• A Conversation with Ann Hood & Julia Ridley Smith \nKATHYRN SCHULZ is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error. She won a National Magazine Award and a Pulitzer Prize in 2015 for “The Really Big One\,” an article about seismic risk in the Pacific Northwest. Lost & Found grew out of “Losing Streak\,” which was originally published in The New Yorker and later anthologized in The Best American Essays. Her other essays and reporting have appeared in The Best American Science and Nature Writing\, The Best American Travel Writing\, and The Best American Food Writing. A native of Ohio\, she lives with her family on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. \nALEXIS ORGERA is a poet-writer\, book editor\, and publisher living in North Carolina. She’s the author of two poetry collections in addition to Head Case: My Father\, Alzheimer’s & Other Brainstorms (Kore Press\, December 2021). Her work can be found in literary magazines like the Bennington Review\, Black Warrior Review\, Carolina Quarterly\, Chattahoochee Review\, Conduit\, Denver Quarterly\, Green Mountains Review\, Gulf Coast\, Hotel Amerika\, Indianapolis Review\, Interim\, Massachusetts Review\, Passages North\, Prairie Schooner\, Third Coast\, and elsewhere. \n\nCASEY CEP is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her first book\, Furious Hours: Murder\, Fraud\, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee\, was an instant New York Times bestseller\, and is available in paperback\, hardcover\, as an e-book\, and as an audiobook URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/lost-found-forgetting/ LOCATION:Van Dyke Performance Space\, Greensboro Cultural Center\, 200 N Davie Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401\, United States CATEGORIES:LGBTQIA,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T150000 DTSTAMP:20260501T115338 CREATED:20220325T205914Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220522T025404Z UID:8503-1653228000-1653231600@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Immigration and Refugee Matters DESCRIPTION:Advanced registration for this event is closed. However\, you may "walk-up" and register onsite.  \n\n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n Professor Diya Abdo\, a Palestinian woman whose grandmother once sought refuge in Jordan\, saw the need for a more inclusive approach to help refugees arriving in America. In 2015\, she started the Every Campus a Refuge program\, which has since spread to six other universities in the US\, providing free housing to refugees on campus\, language tutoring\, assistance with job searches\, and an army of volunteers\, many of whom are students in Guilford's ECAR minor. Photo taken April 5\, 2018.\n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nAs the world continues to displace people in astonishing numbers\, Abdo and Haqq bring the personal stories of individual lives effected by the continuing inhumane actions and responses to human suffering. With DIYA ABDO and ELISHEBA HAQQ. Hosted by DR. JOHN COX.  \nYou may also be interested in:\n•  Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing\, Racism\, and Asian American Life \nDIYA ABDO is the first daughter and granddaughter of Palestinian refugees born in their country of displacement\, Jordan. A graduate of Yarmouk University\, she earned master’s and doctorate degrees from Drew University. She is a full professor in the English department of Guilford College\, where she founded the first chapter of Every Campus A Refuge (ECAR)\, which aims to host global refugees. Diya is the recipient of several national community engagement awards\, including the 2021 J.M.K. Innovation Prize for her work with ECAR. She lives in Greensboro\, NC\, with her partner\, daughters\, and cats. \nELISHEBA HAQQ was born in Chandigarh\, India\, but was brought up in Minnesota\, USA. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University and currently teaches writing at Rutgers University. Her work has appeared in A Letter for my Mother\, Gateways\, She.knows.com\, and NJ Monthly. An RN by profession\, she has also been published in Creative Nursing and Journal of Nursing Education and Practice. \n\nDR. JOHN COX is a professor of Global Studies and History at UNC Charlotte\, where he directs the university’s genocide & human rights studies center. He has lectured and published widely on racism\, genocide\, human rights\, and resistance. \n  \n  URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/immigration-and-refugee-matters/ LOCATION:Greensboro History Museum\, 130 Summit Avenue\, GREENSBORO\, NC\, 27401\, United States CATEGORIES:API Authors,IBPOC Authors,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T150000 DTSTAMP:20260501T115338 CREATED:20220325T201131Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220414T155404Z UID:8494-1653141600-1653145200@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:The Truth about Disability: What We Don't Talk About DESCRIPTION:*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nAround 20% of Americans live with a disability\, but for many disability remains a taboo subject. Too often\, the complex experiences of the disabled are reduced to pity or inspiration. On this panel\, three disabled authors of poetry\, fiction\, and nonfiction discuss their work and what we don’t talk about when we talk about disability. With EMILY MALONEY\, KAY ULANDAY BARRETT\, and JT HILL. Hosted by JT HILL. \nYou may also be interested in:\n•  Sounding Bodies: Identity\, Injustice\, and the Voice\n• Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing\, Racism\, and Asian American Life\n•  Whatever Wholeness Means: Poetry in an Age of Separation \nEMILY MALONEY is the author of COST OF LIVING (Henry Holt\, 2022). Her work has appeared in Glamour\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, Best American Essays\, and the American Journal of Nursing\, among others. In addition to her work as an ER tech\, she has worked as a dog groomer\, horse trainer\, pastry chef\, general contractor\, tile setter\, and catalog model and sold her ceramics at art fairs. She has twice been awarded a MacDowell Fellowship and lives in Evanston\, Illinois. \nKAY ULANDAY BARRETT is a poet\, essayist\, cultural strategist\, and A+ napper. They are the winner of the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly Award for Poetry and a recipient of a 2020 James Baldwin Fellowship at MacDowell. Their second book\, More Than Organs (Sibling Rivalry Press\, 2020) received a 2021 Stonewall Honor Book Award by the American Library Association and is a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. They have received fellowships from VONA Voices\, Monson Arts\, Macondo\, and The Lambda Literary Review. They have featured at The United Nations\, The Lincoln Center\, The Hemispheric Institute\, Symphony Space\, Brooklyn Museum\, Dodge Poetry\, The Poetry Foundation\, The School of the Arts Institute\, Manchester PRIDE\, Sesame Street\, & more. Their contributions are found in The New York Times\, Poetry Magazine\, Academy of American Poets\, Colorlines\, Asian American Literary Review\, The Advocate\, Al Jazeera\, NYLON\, Vogue\, The Rumpus\, The Lily\, VIDA Review\, and elsewhere. Currently\, they serve as a curator at The Asian American Writer’s Workshop. \nJT HILL Hill is the author of a memoir\, Blind Man’s Bluff\, coming July 2021 from W. W. Norton. His fiction debut\, Academy Gothic\, won the Nilsen Literary Prize for a First Novel. His essays have been listed as Notable in the 2019 and 2020 editions of Best American Essays\, and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Prairie Schooner\, Writer’s Digest\, Story Quarterly\, and Hobart\, among others. He serves as fiction editor for the literary journal Monkeybicycle and contributing editor for Literary Hub\, where he writes a monthly audiobooks column. He lives in Greensboro\, North Carolina with his wife. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/the-truth-about-disability/ LOCATION:Stephen D. Hyers Theater\, Greensboro Cultural Center\, 200 N Davie Street\, GREENSBORO\, NC\, 27401\, United States CATEGORIES:API Authors,IBPOC Authors,LGBTQIA,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction,Poetry END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T133000 DTSTAMP:20260501T115338 CREATED:20220325T190905Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220405T112204Z UID:8403-1653134400-1653139800@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Lost Mothers: Memoirs of Longing DESCRIPTION:*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nWith ELISHEBA HAQQ and MEGAN CULHANE GALBRAITH. Hosted by LEE ZACHARIAS. \nYou May also be interested in:  \n• Memoir Plus: A Conversation on Hybrid Memoir\n• $ WORKSHOP Down the Rabbit Hole of Your Own Life: A Creative Writing Lab with Laurie Stone\n• $ WORKSHOP Writing from the Body with Nicole Lungerhausen\n• Lost & Found & Forgetting: Memoir as an Act of Moving Forward\n• A Conversation with Ann Hood & Julia Ridley Smith\n•Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing\, Racism\, and Asian American Life\n•Immigration and Refugee Matters \n  \nELISHEBA HAQQ was born in Chandigarh\, India\, but was brought up in Minnesota\, USA. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University and currently teaches writing at Rutgers University. Her work has appeared in A Letter for my Mother\, Gateways\, She.knows.com\, and NJ Monthly. An RN by profession\, she has also been published in Creative Nursing and Journal of Nursing Education and Practice. \nMEGAN CULHANE GALBRAITH is a writer\, visual artist\, and adoptee. She is the author of The Guild of the Infant Saviour: An Adopted Child’s Memory Book (Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press\, May 2021) a hybrid memoir-in-essays that pairs narrative with images to weave a personal and cultural history of adoption as it relates to guilt\, shame\, grief\, identity\, and memory itself. She connects her experiences to those of generations of adoptees\, to the larger stories America tells about sex and motherhood\, and to the shadows those stories cast on us all. She was named one of the “5 Over 50” by Poets & Writers in 2021. Her work was Notable in Best American Essays 2021 and 2017 and her writing and art have featured in BOMB\, HYPERALLERGIC!\, The Believer\, Tupelo Quarterly\, ZZYZYVA\, Hobart\, Longreads\, Hotel Amerika\, Catapult\, and Redivider\, among others. She has been awarded fellowships by The Saltonstall Foundation\, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, and The Horned Dorset Colony. Megan is a graduate of and the Associate Director at the Bennington Writing Seminars and the founding director of the Governor’s Institutes of Vermont Young Writers Institute. \n\nLEE ZACHARIAS is the author of a collection of short stories\, a collection of essays\, and four novels. Her third novel\, Across the Great Lake\, a 2019 Notable Michigan Book\, won a silver medal in literary fiction from the Independent Publisher Awards\, the 2019 Sir Walter Raleigh Award\, the 2020 Philip H. McMath Book Award. Her fourth novel\, What a Wonderful World This Could Be\, was a finalist for the 2021 American Fiction Awards and has been chosen as a Distinguished Favorite by the 2021 NYC Big Book Awards and the 2022 Independent Press Awards. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/lost-mothers/ LOCATION:Stephen D. Hyers Theater\, Greensboro Cultural Center\, 200 N Davie Street\, GREENSBORO\, NC\, 27401\, United States CATEGORIES:IBPOC Authors,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T123000 DTSTAMP:20260501T115338 CREATED:20220325T190450Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220415T155607Z UID:8400-1653132600-1653136200@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Upon Her Shoulders: Native Women and the South DESCRIPTION:Mary Ann Jacobs\n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n Cherry Beasley\n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nWith a focus on southeast Native women\, Beasley and Jacobs share stories from an anthology they edited on justice\, spirit\, and community. With DRS. CHERRY BEASLEY and MARY ANN JACOBS. Hosted by ROBIN MIURA. \nCHERRY BEASLEY\, PhD\, RN\, FAAN is an experienced nurse stiving to impact the health of populations from rural settings\, underserved area and indigenous communities. As an educator\, her longest tenure at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Dr. Beasley\, a native of Pembroke and an active member of the Lumbee Tribe\, was the first nursing faculty member hired at UNCP and has been instrumental in the development and growth of nursing and health profession programs at UNCP\, where she is the chief officer for the McKenzie-Elliott School of Nursing and the interim Dean of the College of Health Sciences. Dr. Beasley is a recipient of the coveted UNC Board of Governor’s Award for Teaching Excellence. Dr. Beasley finds synergy in her research and service interests by focusing on health care decision making and health care behaviors of rural and/or minority populations. Dr. Beasley works extensively with populations in participatory community outreach and research to address health disparities and to improve the quality of health care in rural communities. She is using participatory methodologies to address poor health outcomes experienced by populations with excessive death and disabilities. Most recently her work has focused on the drives of health including poverty\, empowerment\, food sovereignty\, and environmental justice\, and disparities of health data. Her strongly committed to others understanding the value\, culture and healthcare needs of rural\, minority or underserved populations\, led her being selected as the inaugural appointment as Anna Belk Endowed Professor for Rural and Minority Health. Dr. Beasley is the proud mother of a son\, Zeb and his wife Katie\, and a daughter\, Mary-Joyce and her husband Brian. She is very excited to be the grandmother of five. \nDR. MARY ANN JACOBS is an associate professor and chair of American Indian Studies at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. She teaches courses with a focus on American Indian Studies\, American Indian identity\, education\, and cultural competency. She was previously the director of American Indian Studies at California State University\, Long Beach (1990–1996) and an assistant professor of social work at San Diego State University (2005–2007). Dr. Jacobs is the co-editor of one book and the author of several peer-reviewed articles\, book sections\, and reports dealing with American Indian women\, STEM education for American Indian (AI) students\, historical trauma\, foster care\, racial identity\, Chicago’s AI community\, AI lesbians and gays\, child welfare policies for Indigenous children\, and decolonizing methods. Dr. Jacobs\, her husband\, and children are enrolled members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. Dr. Jacobs and her husband attend Mt. Airy Baptist Church in Pembroke. \nROBIN MIURA is Senior Editor and Associate Publisher at Blair and has worked in publishing for more than 20 years. She has worked with all types of books\, but her passion is literary fiction and creative nonfiction. She is also a founding editor of the online magazine South Writ Large. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/upon-her-shoulders/ LOCATION:Greensboro History Museum\, 130 Summit Avenue\, GREENSBORO\, NC\, 27401\, United States CATEGORIES:IBPOC Authors,Literary Fiction,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T110000 DTSTAMP:20260501T115338 CREATED:20220325T153814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220405T112115Z UID:8389-1653127200-1653130800@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing\, Racism\, and Asian American Life DESCRIPTION:*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nThree Asian-American authors use their work to discuss the rise in violence toward Asian-Americans while exploring the complex joys and responsibilities of writing and identity. With MICHAEL CROLEY\, H’RINA DeTROY\, and THIEN-KIM LAM. Hosted by SAYAKA MATSUOKA. \nYou may also be interested in:\n• Immigration and Refugee Matters\n• Afternoon Delight \nMICHAEL CROLEY is the author of Any Other Place: Stories\, winner of the James Still Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Weatherford Award. He is also the co-editor (with Jack Shuler) of Midland: Reports from Flyover Country. His reporting\, stories\, and essays have appeared in Esquire\, The New York Times\, Bloomberg Businessweek\, VQR\, The Paris Review\, Kenyon Review\, LitHub\, Narrative\, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Ohio Arts Council\, the Kentucky Arts Council\, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He teaches at Denison University and is on the visiting faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.\n \nH’RINA DeTROY is a Montagnard American writer based in Brooklyn. She was the recipient of the 2020 Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation Grant in Literature and a 2019 Emerging Writer Fellowship at Aspen Word in Memoir. Roxane Gay selected her essay entitled “The Vengeance of Elephants” for the 2017 Curt Johnson Prose Prize in Creative Nonfiction for December Magazine. She holds a Master of Arts in Journalism and MFA in Creative Writing from Hunter College. She’s a teacher and working with the Montagnard Dega Association and the city of Greensboro\, she created the ground-breaking workshop\, “Apocalypse Never: Writing Our Origin Stories and Imaginative Futures as Montagnard Americans.” A contributing editor for DiaCRITICS\, she focuses amplifying Montagnard and other indigenous\, ethnic minority voices of Southeast Asian diasporas. \nTHIEN-KIM LAM writes stories about Vietnamese characters who smash stereotypes and find their happy endings. A recovering Type-Asian\, she guzzles cà phê sữa đá\, makes art\, and bakes her feelings to stay sane. Thien-Kim is also the founder of Bawdy Bookworms\, a subscription box that pairs sexy romances with erotic toys. She’s been featured on Jezebel\, NPR\, BBC America\, and Glamour. Her debut novel Happy Endings is now available\, and her forthcoming book will be released in 2022. \n  \nSAYAKA MATSUOKA is a freelance journalist and managing editor for Triad City Beat\, an alternative weekly newspaper based in Greensboro covering the Triad. She was born in NY but raised in Greensboro. She writes mostly for the paper these days\, about anything from cultural events and food to right-wing extremism and police brutality. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/borderlands-and-crossroads/ LOCATION:Stephen D. Hyers Theater\, Greensboro Cultural Center\, 200 N Davie Street\, GREENSBORO\, NC\, 27401\, United States CATEGORIES:API Authors,IBPOC Authors,Literary Fiction,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction,Romance,Short Stories END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220520T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220520T180000 DTSTAMP:20260501T115338 CREATED:20220325T150911Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220520T154152Z UID:8381-1653066000-1653069600@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Memoir Plus: A Conversation on Hybrid Memoir DESCRIPTION:This event is SOLD OUT.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n  \n**THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT**\n  \n*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \n  \nHow can bringing other genres and forms into memoir enrich the text? How close must memoir adhere to the facts? What is a memoir\, anyway? LAURIE STONE and ALEXIS ORGERA will use their own work to enlarge our idea of the genre and telling the story of our own lives. Hosted by STEVE MITCHELL. \nYou may also be interested in:\n• $ WORKSHOP Down the Rabbit Hole of Your Own Life: A Creative Writing Lab with Laurie Stone\n• Lost Mothers: Memoirs of Longing\n• $ WORKSHOP Writing from the Body with Nicole Lungerhausen\n• Lost & Found & Forgetting: Memoir as an Act of Moving Forward\n• A Conversation with Ann Hood & Julia Ridley Smith\n \nLAURIE STONE Laurie Stone is author of six books books including recently Streaming Now\, Postcards from the Thing that is Happening (Dottir Press\, 2022)\, Everything is Personal\, Notes on Now (Scuppernong Editions\, 2020)\, and My Life as an Animal\, Stories (Northwestern University Press/Triquarterly Press\, 2016). She was a longtime writer for the Village Voice\, theater critic for The Nation\, and critic-at-large on Fresh Air. She won the Nona Balakian prize in excellence in criticism from the National Book Critics Circle and two grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has published numerous stories in such publications as n + 1\, Waxwing\, Tin House\, Evergreen Review\, Electric Lit\, Fence\, Open City\, Anderbo\, The Collagist\, Your impossible Voice\, New Letters\, TriQuarterly\, Threepenny Review\, and Creative Nonfiction. In 2005\, she participated in “Novel: An Installation\,” writing a book and living in a house designed by architects Salazar/Davis in the Flux Factory’s gallery space. She has frequently collaborated with composer Gordon Beeferman in text/music works. The world premier of their piece “You\, the Weather\, a Wolf” was presented in the 2016 season of the St. Urban concerts. Her next book will be The Love of Strangers\, a collection of linked stories. Her website is: lauriestonewriter.com. \nALEXIS ORGERA is a poet-writer\, book editor\, and publisher living in North Carolina. She’s the author of two poetry collections in addition to Head Case: My Father\, Alzheimer’s & Other Brainstorms (Kore Press\, December 2021). Her work can be found in literary magazines like the Bennington Review\, Black Warrior Review\, Carolina Quarterly\, Chattahoochee Review\, Conduit\, Denver Quarterly\, Green Mountains Review\, Gulf Coast\, Hotel Amerika\, Indianapolis Review\, Interim\, Massachusetts Review\, Passages North\, Prairie Schooner\, Third Coast\, and elsewhere. More at alexisorgera.com. \nSTEVE MITCHELL\, a writer and journalist\, has published in CRAFT Literary\, entropy\, december magazine\, Southeast Review\, among others. His novel\, Cloud Diary\, is published by C&R Press. His book of short stories is The Naming of Ghosts from Press 53. He has a deep belief in the primacy of doubt and an abiding conviction that great wisdom informs very bad movies. He’s co-owner of Scuppernong Books in Greensboro\, NC. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/stone-orgera/ LOCATION:Scuppernong Books\, 304 S Elm Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401 CATEGORIES:Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T160000 DTSTAMP:20260501T115338 CREATED:20210401T065109Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210402T152204Z UID:5640-1621177200-1621180800@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:A Measure of Belonging: 21 Writers of Color on the New American South DESCRIPTION:A Measure of Belonging: 21 Writers of Color on the New American South  editor CINELLE BARNES fell in love with a boy from the Carolinas\, moved South with him\, and immediately encountered the worst and the best The South has to offer. Committed to “making this place as big as it is\,” she found 21 other writers of color\, both established and emerging\, who are also confronting the paradoxes that envelop the South. A Measure of Belonging is the space she held for their stories. Contributors IVELISSE RODRIGUEZ and DIANA CEJAS join us to talk about their experiences— the good\, the bad\, and the befuddling— of living down south. [rsvp required; see below] \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \nCINELLE BARNES is a memoirist\, essayist\, and educator from Manila\, Philippines\, and is the author of Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir (Little A\, 2018) and Malaya: Essays on Freedom (Little A\, 2019)\, and the editor the New York Times New & Noteworthy book\, A Measure of Belonging: 21 Writes of Color on the New American South (Hub City Press\, 2020). She earned an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Converse College.  She is currently at work on a nonfiction narrative book on climate justice and the Philippine water crisis.\nAuthor Website \nIVELISSE RODRIGUEZ’s debut short story collection Love War Stories is a 2019 PEN/Faulkner finalist and a 2018 Foreword Reviews INDIES finalist. She is the founder and editor of an interview series focused on contemporary Puerto Rican writers published in Centro Voices. She was a senior fiction editor at Kweli and is a Kimbilio fellow and a VONA/Voices alum. She earned an M.F.A. in creative writing from Emerson College and a Ph.D. in English-creative writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago.\nAuthor Website\n\nDIANA CEJAS  is a pediatric neurologist and writer in Durham\, NC. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in medical journals and literary magazines including The Journal of the American Medical Association\, The Iowa Review\, and Catapult\, among others. She is currently working on a memoir that describes her life as a physician-patient. She spends her days off on her family’s farm gardening and tending to their honeybees. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/a-measure-of-belonging/ LOCATION:VIRTUAL CATEGORIES:Adult,Literary Fiction,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T133000 DTSTAMP:20260501T115338 CREATED:20210330T174835Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210430T144236Z UID:5387-1621166400-1621171800@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:LIVE Your Story\, Your Voice: A Writing Workshop DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin Our Stories\, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice\, Empowerment\, and Growing Up Female in America editor AMY REED and contributors AMBER SMITH and IW GREGORIO in a writing workshop to explore how to find your own “voice” as a writer. Each author will speak about their journey and then guide participants through a writing exercise to uncover your own voice. Workshop will conclude with a participant discussion and an opportunity to share your writing.  A great opportunity to explore writing in an authentic voice for young adults\, parents of young adults\, aspiring YA writers\, and marginalized communities. \n \n  \n  \nConversations \nSaturday\, 5/15 – Part 1 – Our Stories\, Our Voices: Four Years On\nSunday\, 5/16 –  Part 2 – Our Stories\, Our Voices: Writing As Activism\n \nAMY REED is the award-winning author of several novels for young adults\, including The Nowhere Girls\, The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World\, Beautiful\, Clean\, and Crazy. Her newest book\, the psychological thriller Tell Me My Name\,  is a near-future\, gender-swapped retelling of The Great Gatsby. Amy is a feminist\, mother\, and Virgo who enjoys running\, making lists\, and wandering around the mountains of western North Carolina where she lives.\nAuthor Website \nAMBER SMITH is the New York Times bestselling author of the young adult novels The Way I Used to Be\, The Last to Let Go\, and Something Like Gravity. An advocate for increased awareness of gendered violence\, as well as LGBTQ equality\, she writes in the hope that her books can help to foster change and spark dialogue surrounding these issues. She grew up in Buffalo\, New York\, and now lives in Charlotte\, North Carolina\, with her wife and their ever-growing family of rescued dogs and cats. \nAuthor Website \nIW GREGORIO is a practicing surgeon by day\, masked avenging YA writer by night. She is author of This is My Brain in Love\, which was awarded the 2020 Schneider Family Book Award by the American Library Association. After getting her MD\, she did her residency at Stanford\, where she met the intersex patient who inspired her debut novel\, None of the Above\, which was a Lambda Literary Finalist\, a Publishers Weekly Flying Start\, and an ALA Rainbow List selection. She is proud to be a board member of interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth\, and is a founding member of We Need Diverse Books. Her essays have been published in Newsweek\, The Washington Post\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, The Philadelphia Inquirer\, and Scientific American\, among others.\nAuthor Website \n  \nThis event is sponsored by: URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/ya-workshop/ LOCATION:LIVE ZOOM CATEGORIES:Adult,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction,Workshop,Young Adult END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T130000 DTSTAMP:20260501T115338 CREATED:20210401T065912Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210401T192825Z UID:5633-1621166400-1621170000@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Art of Memoir with Ginger Gaffney and James Tate Hill DESCRIPTION:Authors GINGER GAFFNEY and JAMES TATE (JT) HILL talk about the craft of writing memoir\, sifting through your personal life\, and facing your vulnerability on the page with host STEVE MITCHELL.  Gaffney’s Half Broke is the memoir of a woman who related more to horses than people and how she finds a home of sorts teaching at an alternative prison ranch. Blind Man’s Bluff is James Tate Hill’s memoir of becoming legally blind at age 16\, but pretending for years that he was not.  [rsvp required; see below] \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \nGINGER GAFFNEY received her MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe\, New Mexico. Her work has been published in Witness Magazine\, The Utne Reader\, Tin House and other publications. She lives between Mesa Prieta and the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.\nAuthor Website \nJAMES TATE HILL  is the author of a memoir\, Blind Man’s Bluff\, coming July 2021 from W. W. Norton. His fiction debut\, Academy Gothic\, won the Nilsen Literary Prize for a First Novel. His essays have been listed as Notable in the 2019 and 2020 editions of Best American Essays\, and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Prairie Schooner\, Writer’s Digest\, Story Quarterly\, and Hobart\, among others. He serves as fiction editor for the literary journal Monkeybicycle and contributing editor for Literary Hub\, where he writes a monthly audiobooks column. He lives in Greensboro\, North Carolina with his wife.\nAuthor Website \nSTEVE MITCHELL is an award-winning writer and journalist. His novel\, Cloud Diary\, is published by C&R Press. His book of short stories is The Naming of Ghosts from Press 53. He is a winner of the Curt Johnson Prose Prize and the Lorian Hemingway International Short Story Prize. He’s currently writing a mix of memoir and film criticism for a project he calls Mirrorbox. He’s co-owner of Scuppernong Books in Greensboro\, NC. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/gaffney-hill/ LOCATION:VIRTUAL CATEGORIES:Adult,Memoir/Personal Essay END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T110000 DTSTAMP:20260501T115338 CREATED:20210330T174804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210401T225509Z UID:5589-1621159200-1621162800@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Our Stories\, Our Voices: Writing As Activism DESCRIPTION:Join Our Stories\, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice\, Empowerment\, and Growing Up Female in America editor AMY REED and contributors AMBER SMITH and IW GREGORIO as they discuss what it means to write in one’s own voice\, how do you make the personal political\, what is the role of literature and art in social justice\, and how is artistic or literary activism defined. \nSaturday\, 5/15 – Part 1 – Our Stories\, Our Voices: Four Years On\nSunday\, 5/16 – Your Story\, Your Voice: A Writing Workshop\n \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book images above. \n  \nAMY REED is the award-winning author of several novels for young adults\, including The Nowhere Girls\, The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World\, Beautiful\, Clean\, and Crazy. Her newest book\, the psychological thriller Tell Me My Name\,  is a near-future\, gender-swapped retelling of The Great Gatsby. Amy is a feminist\, mother\, and Virgo who enjoys running\, making lists\, and wandering around the mountains of western North Carolina where she lives.\nAuthor Website \nAMBER SMITH is the New York Times bestselling author of the young adult novels The Way I Used to Be\, The Last to Let Go\, and Something Like Gravity. An advocate for increased awareness of gendered violence\, as well as LGBTQ equality\, she writes in the hope that her books can help to foster change and spark dialogue surrounding these issues. She grew up in Buffalo\, New York\, and now lives in Charlotte\, North Carolina\, with her wife and their ever-growing family of rescued dogs and cats. \nAuthor Website \nIW GREGORIO is a practicing surgeon by day\, masked avenging YA writer by night. She is author of This is My Brain in Love\, which was awarded the 2020 Schneider Family Book Award by the American Library Association. After getting her MD\, she did her residency at Stanford\, where she met the intersex patient who inspired her debut novel\, None of the Above\, which was a Lambda Literary Finalist\, a Publishers Weekly Flying Start\, and an ALA Rainbow List selection. She is proud to be a board member of interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth\, and is a founding member of We Need Diverse Books. Her essays have been published in Newsweek\, The Washington Post\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, The Philadelphia Inquirer\, and Scientific American\, among others.\nAuthor Website \n  \nThis event is sponsored by: URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/our-stories-our-voices-2/ LOCATION:VIRTUAL CATEGORIES:Adult,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction,Young Adult END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210515T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210515T160000 DTSTAMP:20260501T115338 CREATED:20210401T071157Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210510T161316Z UID:5613-1621090800-1621094400@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Issac Bailey & Bakari Sellers DESCRIPTION:Essayist ISSAC BAILEY author of Why Didn’t We Riot: A Black Man in Trumpland\, and CNN commentator BAKARI SELLERS\, author of My Vanishing Country\, review the life of African Americans in post-Trump America and in the South. They address traumas that shaped their lives: Dylan Roof and Mother Emmanuel AME\, African American accommodation of whites\, the myths and truths that made Donald Trump president\, reparations\, and the changes we must make to end 400+ years of systemic racism. Hosted by STEPHEN COLYER.  [rsvp required; see below]  \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \nBAKARI SELLERS is a CNN political analyst and was the youngest-ever member of the South Carolina state legislature. Recently named to TIME’s “40 Under 40” List\, he is also a practicing attorney fighting to give a voice for the voiceless.\nAuthor Website\n \nISSAC BAILEY is a veteran journalist who has won numerous writing and reporting awards and has conducted investigations that led to changes in the way the S.C. Department of Social Services handles child protection cases. He is also a certified guardian ad litem and has served as the legal representative in Family Court for children in distress and has spent several years mentoring troubled youth in a variety of capacities. Bailey is Davidson College’s Batten Professor and taught journalism and applied ethics at Coastal Carolina University for several years.  He is married to Dr. Tracy Bailey\, founder and executive director of non-profit literacy organization\, Freedom Readers\, and has two teenaged children. Bailey’s 2018 book\, My Brother Moochie\, which discusses the effects of the criminal justice system on black families\, has received critical acclaim and has been featured in the New York Times.\nAuthor Website\n\nSTEPHEN COLYER is the Greensboro Literary Organization Board Treasurer and one of the founders of Greensboro Bound. He has been thrilled to see an idea crystallize\, grow and become a valued part of our community’s arts ecosystem. His interest in book fairs/literary festivals stemmed from a 21 year sojourn in Miami where he attended and then volunteered with Miami Book Fair\, the largest literary festival in the United States. He lives in Jamestown\, NC with his wife Sandra and their dog\, Missy. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/bailey-sellers/ LOCATION:VIRTUAL CATEGORIES:Adult,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210515T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210515T110000 DTSTAMP:20260501T115338 CREATED:20210331T193205Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210401T225405Z UID:5583-1621072800-1621076400@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Our Stories\, Our Voices: Four Years On DESCRIPTION:Join Our Stories\, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice\, Empowerment\, and Growing Up Female in America editor AMY REED and contributors TRACY DEONN\, AMBER SMITH\, and IW GREGORIO as they look back on their contribution to Our Stories\, Our Voices. We’ll take a closer look at how their perspectives have changed over the past four years and what they might say now if they were to write their essays all over again; and how and why their writing has changed since Our Stories\, Our Voices was first published in 2018. \nSunday\, 5/16 –  Part 2 – Our Stories\, Our Voices: Writing As Activism\nSunday\, 5/16 – Your Story\, Your Voice: A Writing Workshop\n \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book images above. \n  \nAMY REED is the award-winning author of several novels for young adults\, including The Nowhere Girls\, The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World\, Beautiful\, Clean\, and Crazy. Her newest book\, the psychological thriller Tell Me My Name\,  is a near-future\, gender-swapped retelling of The Great Gatsby. Amy is a feminist\, mother\, and Virgo who enjoys running\, making lists\, and wandering around the mountains of western North Carolina where she lives.\nAuthor Website \nTRACY DEONN is the New York Times bestselling author of Legendborn and a second-generation fangirl who grew up in North Carolina. Tracy has worked in live theater\, video games\, and K–12 education. When she’s not writing\, Tracy speaks on panels at SFF conventions\, reads fanfic\, and keeps an eye out for ginger-flavored everything.\nAuthor Website \nAMBER SMITH is the New York Times bestselling author of the young adult novels The Way I Used to Be\, The Last to Let Go\, and Something Like Gravity. An advocate for increased awareness of gendered violence\, as well as LGBTQ equality\, she writes in the hope that her books can help to foster change and spark dialogue surrounding these issues. She grew up in Buffalo\, New York\, and now lives in Charlotte\, North Carolina\, with her wife and their ever-growing family of rescued dogs and cats. \nAuthor Website \nIW GREGORIO is a practicing surgeon by day\, masked avenging YA writer by night. She is author of This is My Brain in Love\, which was awarded the 2020 Schneider Family Book Award by the American Library Association. After getting her MD\, she did her residency at Stanford\, where she met the intersex patient who inspired her debut novel\, None of the Above\, which was a Lambda Literary Finalist\, a Publishers Weekly Flying Start\, and an ALA Rainbow List selection. She is proud to be a board member of interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth\, and is a founding member of We Need Diverse Books. Her essays have been published in Newsweek\, The Washington Post\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, The Philadelphia Inquirer\, and Scientific American\, among others.\nAuthor Website \n  \nThis event is sponsored by: URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/our-stories-our-voices-1/ LOCATION:VIRTUAL CATEGORIES:Adult,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction,Young Adult END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210513T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210513T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T115338 CREATED:20210331T194056Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210428T193111Z UID:5382-1620932400-1620936000@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:A Conversation with Roxane Gay DESCRIPTION:Join The New York Times best-selling author ROXANE GAY in conversation with CYNTHIA GREENLEE. Gay’s writing explores what it means to be a feminist\, a woman of color\, and quite simply a human being with a body. Gay’s work includes Bad Feminist (2014)\, Difficult Women (2017)\, the memoir Hunger (2017)\, and the forthcoming (out later this year)\, Unti on Writing. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel. [rsvp required; see below] \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book images above. \nROXANE GAY’s writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014\, Best American Short Stories 2012\, Best Sex Writing 2012\, A Public Space\, McSweeney’s\, Tin House\, Oxford American\, American Short Fiction\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. She is the author of the books Ayiti\, An Untamed State\, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist\, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women and the New York Times bestselling Hunger. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel. She has several books forthcoming and is also at work on television and film projects.\nAuthor Website \nDR. CYNTHIA GREENLEE is a Durham\, North Carolina-based historian\, writer\, and senior editor at The Counter. She’s also the winner of a coveted James Beard Foundation Award for foodways writing\, and she’s co-editor of The Echoing Ida Collection\, an anthology of Black women and nonbinary people writing about reproductive and social justice. Her work has appeared in publications as diverse as Essence\, The Nation\, The New York Times\, Literary Hub\, Longreads\, the Journal of Women’s History\, Vox\, Vice\, Smithsonian\, and the Washington Post.\nAuthor Website \n  \nThis event is sponsored by URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/roxane-gay/ LOCATION:VIRTUAL CATEGORIES:Adult,Memoir/Personal Essay END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR