Event Details
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Date & Time
Thursday, Nov 08, 2018 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Department
Gonzaga University Visiting Writers Series
Cost
Free
Location
Hemmingson Ballroom
Contact/Registration
Meagan Ciesla
Event Type & Tags
About This Event
Elena Passarello is an actor, writer, and recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award. Her first collection
Let Me Clear My Throat (Sarabande, 2012), won the gold medal for nonfiction at the 2013 Independent Publisher Awards and was a finalist for the 2014 Oregon Book Award. Her essays on performance, pop culture, and the natural world have been published in
Oxford American,
Slate,
Creative Nonfiction, and
The Iowa Review, among other publications, as well as in the 2015 anthologies
Cat is Art Spelled Wrong and
After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essay. She lives in Corvallis, Oregon and teaches at Oregon State University.
