Feature: Jessica Bane Robert
Host: Kristina England
Date/Time: Friday, October 26, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.
Location: Annie's Book Stop, 65 James Street, Worcester, MA
The reading starts with an Open Mic (1 to 2 pieces, no longer than 5 minutes). This venue loves fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and prose (sorry, no musical instruments).
Feature Bio:
by her father. This experience informs much of what she does as a teacher and writer. An essay from her memoir has been published in Ecotone, a literary journal about place. Her poems have been published and anthologized by a variety of journals and presses including Naugatuck River Review, Cider Press Review, and Outrider Press. She won the Writecorner Press editor’s prize for her villanelle entitled “Family Plot”. Her poems were recently awarded an international merit award from the Atlanta Review and won Salem College’s International Rita Dove Poetry Award.
Her first chap book of poems, Scarred Seasons, was published by Finishing Line Press and was nominated for a Mass Book Award and a Pen New England Literary Award.
Jessica currently teaches Writing and Literature courses at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts and she is the proprietor of the Barred Owl Retreat: A Writing and Learning Center in Leicester, MA. (www.barredowlretreat.com)
