Mount Mercy University: Memory and Imagination Q&A with Author Patricia Foster 3/7/2012 3:30 PM - 3/7/2012

Award-winning author Patricia Foster will visit Mount Mercy University for a night of memory and imagination on Wednesday, March 7. The memoirist and essayist will participate in a question and answer session at 3:30 p.m. Readings from Foster's work will take place later in the evening at 7:00 p.m. Both events will be held in Flaherty Community Room, Basile Hall, and are free and open to the public. Seating may be limited.

Foster, a professor in the English department at the University of Iowa, has written two nonfiction books and served as the editor for three anthologies of nonfiction prose. She also writes fiction and is a graduate of the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop. She won a Lake Effect Fiction Award, a Florida Arts Council Award, a Yaddo residency, four Alabama Arts and Humanities Awards, and a Dean's Scholar Award from the University of Iowa. In 2003, she served as an exchange professor at Paul Valery University in Montpellier, France. Foster holds an M.F.A. in fiction, an M.F.A. in art, and a Ph.D. in women's literature and creative writing.

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