New Voices
Back by popular demand, Thurber House presents a Summer Picnic highlighting emerging authors of fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. All three authors have been published, and all three are Ohio connected. Each author will read from her works individually.
Carla Buckley
has worked in a variety of jobs, including a stint as an assistant
press secretary to a U.S. senator and as an analyst with the Smithsonian
Institute. She will read from her debut novel, The Things that
Keep Us Here. With the city of Columbus as a backdrop, this is a
chilling look at what could happen when a virulent pandemic makes a
terrible leap across the ocean to America’s heartland, and how one
family struggles to survive in the face of mounting uncertainty.
Sarah Gridley is the author of two books of poetry: Weather
Eye Open and Green is the Orator. Her poems have appeared
in various print and online journals, including Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly,Gulf Coast, jubilat, Kenyon Review Online, New
American Poetry and Slope. She is a
recipient of an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council and a Creative
Workforce Fellowship from the Community
Partnership for Arts and and Culture. She is an assistant professor
of English at Case Western Reserve
University.
Paula McLain
received her MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan, and has
since been a resident at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and has
received fellowships from both the Ohio
Arts Council and the National
Endowment for the Arts. In addition to two books of poetry and a
novel, McLain is the author of the memoir, Like Family: Growing
Up in Other People’s Houses, a searing
portrait of three young sisters who are abandoned by their parents and
raised as wards of the Fresno County, California court. She teaches at John Carroll University.
Missed the event? Click here for the New Voices' Writer's Talk interview with Doug Dangler!
