Hearing Voices with Anne Barngrover and Marlene Lee

Join us at Orr Street Studios at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 23, for readings of poetry by Anne Barngrover and fiction by Marlene Lee.

ANNE BARNGROVER

Anne Barngrover’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Indiana Review, Meridian, Ninth Letter, Florida Review, Michigan Quarterly and elsewhere. She earned an MFA at Florida State University and is a first-year PhD candidate in poetry at University of Missouri. She is currently searching for a home for her first manuscript, Yell Hound Blues.

MARLENE LEE

Marlene Lee's novel The Absent Woman is being published this spring by Holland House Books. She has subsidized her writing career by working as a teacher, professor and court reporter.  Her poems, stories and essays have appeared in numerous publications. Two sons and their families (four grandchildren) live on the East Coast. Marlene lives in Columbia and maintains her apartment in New York City, where she worked and wrote for many years.

Orr Street Studios is located at 106 Orr St. in downtown Columbia, Mo. Join us every Tuesday evening during the academic year for literary readings and visual-arts presentations.

Hearing Voices with Gordon Sauer and Beth Peterson

Join us at Orr Street Studios at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, for readings of fiction by Gordon Sauer and creative nonfiction by Beth Peterson.

GORDON SAUER

Gordon Sauer's fiction has appeared in Narrative Magazine and his nonfiction in Columbia College Today. He earned his MFA from Columbia University and now teaches in the English Department at the University of Missouri.

 

 

BETH PETERSON

Beth Peterson is a PhD candidate in nonfiction at the University of Missouri. She has an MA from Wheaton College and an MFA from the University of Wyoming. Having been a wilderness guide before she began writing, she is currently working on a book of essays set in a disappearing glacial landscape in Norway. Beth holds a departmental creative writing fellowship, is a Creative Arts Fellow through the American-Scandinavian Foundation and has work forthcoming in Fourth Genre.

Orr Street Studios is located at 106 Orr St. in downtown Columbia, Mo. Join us every Tuesday evening during the academic year for literary readings and visual-arts presentations.