Event

Nature Writing Workshop

Eleanor Stanford's newest volume of poetry, Bartram's Garden, was released in February by Carnegie Mellon University Press. A St. Joseph's Professor and Fulbright Fellow, Stanford will give back to the garden that inspired her by leading an afternoon workshop for writers of all persuasions. The workshop will based indoors, but please come dressed for the weather and ready to make full use of the garden.

PRESENTER BIO:

Eleanor Stanford is the author of the new book of poetry, Bartram's Garden (Carnegie Mellon University Press), a memoir, História, História: Two Years in the Cape Verde Islands (Chicago Center for Literature and Photography) and of the poetry collection, The Book of Sleep (Carnegie).

Her poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Harvard Review, The Georgia Review, The Massachusetts Review, Brain, Child Magazine, and others.

She is a 2014-2015 Fulbright Fellow to Brazil where she is researching and writing about traditional midwifery in rural Bahia.

She is the recipient of a Hadassah Brandeis grant and was awarded a residency at The Betsy-South Beach in Miami.

She was a Henry Hoyns fellow at the University of Virginia, where she earned her M.F.A. She lives in the Philadelphia area with her husband and three sons.

http://www.eleanorstanford.com/