ALUMNAE AUTHORS TO READ IN QUITA WOODWARD ROOM

Moira Egan

Poet Moira Egan '84 and fiction writer Alison Hicks '82 will read to a multigenerational Bryn Mawr audience at a reception sponsored by the Bryn Mawr Club of Philadelphia on Sunday, April 24, from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Quita Woodward Room, Thomas Library. The reading is free and open to the public. For more information and to RSVP, contact Elizabeth Mosier, Acting Director of Creative Writing, at 610-526-531 or e-mail her at emosier@brynmawr.edu.

Moira Egan's poems have appeared in many journals, including POETRY, American Letters & Commentary, Boulevard and The Laurel Review, and in the anthologies Kindled Terraces: American Poets in Greece and Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetics. She has an M.F.A. from Columbia University, where James Merrill chose her manuscript for the Austin Prize. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she directs the creative-writing program in a public high school in Baltimore.

Alison Hicks

Alison Hicks' fiction, poetry and nonfiction have appeared in The Ledge, Pinyon, Peregrine, The Wooster Review and other journals. She is a recipient of a fellowship in creative nonfiction from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. A senior partner of Amherst Writers & Artists, she leads writing workshops under the name Greater Philadelphia Wordshop Studio.

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