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Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.
Lorrie Moore is a writer, critic, and essayist best known for her short stories. Her recent novel, I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Other honors include the O. Henry Award for her short story "People Like That Are the Only People Here", the Rea Award for the Short Story, for outstanding achievement in that genre, and fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters among others. Moore's other published work includes a children's book, The Forgotten Helper, and a collection of essays, See What Can Be Done. She is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.
For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.
U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.
Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.
Lorrie Moore is a writer, critic, and essayist best known for her short stories. Her recent novel, I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Other honors include the O. Henry Award for her short story "People Like That Are the Only People Here", the Rea Award for the Short Story, for outstanding achievement in that genre, and fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters among others. Moore's other published work includes a children's book, The Forgotten Helper, and a collection of essays, See What Can Be Done. She is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.
For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.
U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.
| Building: | Museum of Art |
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| Event Type: | Lecture / Discussion |
| Tags: | Ann Arbor, arts at michigan, Author, book event, Book Talk, Books, Contemporary Literature, Creative Writing, Culture, Department Of English Language And Literature, English Language And Literature, Fiction, Free, Graduate, Literary, Literati, Literature, Mfa Program In Creative Writing, Storytelling, The Helen Zell Writers' Program, UMMA, Writing |
| Source: | Happening @ Michigan from Zell Visiting Writers Series, Residential College, English Language & Literature - MFA Program in Creative Writing, University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program, Department of English Language and Literature |
