From Rebecca Brown….
So, 2015 is already getting busy. My next event will be a reading at the Search For Meaning Book Festival at Seattle U campus on Feb 28. My event is at the fabulous time for a literary event, 10 AM at Pigott auditorium The Book Festival is asking a $10 donation this year, which is – whatever – but we are assured it is ONLY by donation so not obligatory and no one who wants to come will be turned away for not paying. And you have access to a whole day of events. I hope having tickets to buy doesn’t keep folks away! More info at: http://www.seattleu.edu/searchformeaning/
description of my deal below…
Rebecca Brown
“MYSTERIOUS: a reading of new fiction and poetry writing”
photo credit: Andrea Auge
Description of Presentation: Rebecca Brown, author of 12 books of fiction and nonfiction and published in the US and abroad, will read recent work. Brown’s subjects range from being present with the dying (The Gifts of the Body, Harper 1994), to reflections on national character (American Romances, City Lights, 2009), to intersections of indie pop culture and the search for the divine (Experimental Theology, co-edited with Robert Corbett, SRI, 2003). In 2006, Brown curated the DEVOTION exhibit at SU’s Hedreen Gallery.
Location: Pigott 100
Time: 9:00am-10:00am
Biography: Rebecca Brown is a writer, artist, lecturer, curator, journalist and performer. Author a dozen books published in the US and abroad, including American Romances, The Last Time I Saw You, The Dogs and The Terrible Girls (all with City Lights) and The Gifts of the Body, (HarperCollins). Her work has been translated into Japanese, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Italian, etc. She co-edited, with Robert Corbett, Experimental Theology, (Seattle Research Institute, 2003) an anthology of responses modern views of God and godlessness, and with Mary Jane Knecht of the Frye Art Museum, Looking Together: Writers on Art (University of Washington Press).
She has been awarded The Boston Book Review Award, The Lamba Literary Award, a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, two Washington State Book Awards, a Stranger Genius Award and grants to MacDowell, Yaddo, the Millay Colony, Hawthornden Castle, The Breneman-Jaech Foundation, etc. Her altered texts and installations have been exhibited in the Frye Art Museum, Hedreen Gallery, Arizona Center for Poetry, Simon Fraser Gallery (Vancouver, BC) and Shoreline Art Gallery. “Monstrous,” her one woman performance/talk, premiered at Northwest Film Forum in December, 2013. Her play The Toaster premiered at On the Boards. Brown wrote the libretto for The Onion Twins, a dance opera, in collaboration with Better Biscuit Dance and Mike Katell, and has collaborated with numerous other dancers, musicians, theater, opera, film and visual artists. For five years she was lecture partner with Perry Lorenzo of the Seattle Opera on the Dangerous Opposite Series and, in 2014, conducted a series of public conversations on photography and language at the Photography Center Northwest. She has conducted onstage conversations with writers and cultural figures such as Paul Auster and Garry Wills at venues ranging from Town Hall to Elliot Bay Books.
She has read and lectured in Berlin, London, Tokyo, Seattle, Portland, New York and on campuses ranging from Brown University, Wesleyan, U of Texas, U of Alaska, San Francisco U, etc. She is currently working on a book of stories and a book of short parables/monologues and poems.
She is currently Senior Artist in Residence at the University of Washington, Bothell, and teaches in the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing and Poetics program there. For nearly twenty years she has been a faculty member at the Master of Fine Arts program at Goddard College, Vermont.
She is a practicing Catholic and member of St Joseph and St James parishes in Seattle.
Links:
- The Elliott Bay Book Company
- Two Pieces from P-I Writer in Residence Rebecca Brown
- The Dogs: A Modern Bestiary
- University of Washington Bothell-Rebecca Brown
- The Stranger: “Literature: Rebecca Brown”
- Rebecca Brown on Working in Varied Art Forms, Developing a Distinct Style- Spark Magazine
- Rebecca Brown: Literary Subversions of Homonormalization
