Events
GV Writers Series: Oindrila Mukherjee & Beth Peterson
Date and Time
Wednesday, February 1, 2023 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location
Mary Idema Pew Library Multipurpose Room
Description
Oindrila Mukherjee grew up in India, where she worked as a journalist for the country’s oldest English-language newspaper, The Statesman. Her creative and scholarly interests include fiction, nonfiction, literary criticism, creative writing pedagogy, and translations from Bengali literature. Her work has been published in Salon, Kenyon Review Online, Ecotone, The Oxford Anthology of Bengali Literature, The Colorado Review, The Writers’ Chronicle, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Journal of Creative Writing Studies and elsewhere. Her short stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best American Short Stories. She serves as a Contributing Editor for Aster(ix, a transnational journal of literature and art committed to social justice, and co-edited the 2015 issue Atravesando with the writer Angie Cruz. She writes a book series called Bottom Shelf about little known or forgotten Indian books in English for the Indian magazine Scroll.in. Her debut novel The Dream Builders will be published in the US by Tin House Books and in Australia and the UK by Scribe Publications.
Beth Peterson is a nonfiction writer and associate professor of writing at GVSU. Beth has an MA from Wheaton College, an MFA from the University of Wyoming, and a PhD in Creative Writing & Literature from the University of Missouri. A wilderness guide before she began writing, Beth has published essays in Fourth Genre, River Teeth, Passages North, Post Road, The Pinch, Flyway, Mid-American Review, Terrain.org, and other journals. Her essay collection, Dispatches from the End of Ice--a book about disappearing landscapes and people--was published by Trinity University Press in 2019.
Information
For more information, please visit: https://www.gvsu.edu/writing/grand-valley-writers-series-12.htm
Contact
Any questions about the series should be referred to Grand Valley Writers Series Coordinator and Associate Professor Amorak Huey ([email protected]).