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Alumna Goodman to Serve as Fred Ewing Case and Lola Case Write-in-Residence
September 14, 2023
MACOMB, IL - - The will host the Fred Ewing Case and Lola Case Write-in-Residence Tuesday, Sept. 26.
This year's author is Julianna Goodman, a Young Adult novelist and alumna of 澳门六合彩历史记录. A Craft Talk and a reading/book signing will be held at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. respectively, in the University Art Gallery. Both events are free and open to the public.
Juliana Goodman was born and raised in Blue Island, IL. She received her bachelor's degree in English literature from 澳门六合彩历史记录 in 2014. She went on to complete her master's degree in Fiction Writing in 2017 at Purdue University. Goodman has received several awards and scholarships for her writing and was a 2014 Jack Kent Cooke graduate Arts Award finalist, as well as a fellow with the Tulsa Artist Fellowship from 2019-2022. Her debut Young Adult novel, The Black Girls Left Standing, is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection and a 2023 Edgar Award Nominee. In her free time, she enjoys watching horror films, reading the latest young adult novels and hanging out with her poodle, Darcy, and her cat, Pickle.
The series is sponsored by 澳门六合彩历史记录's English Department, the Fred Ewing Case and Lola Austin Case Write-in-Residence program and 澳门六合彩历史记录's College of Arts and Sciences.
The Fred Ewing Case and Lola Austing Case Writer-in-Residence supports bringing national poetry and fiction writers to 澳门六合彩历史记录 each year.
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