Visiting Writer, Grace Talusan will give a featured reading at Vermont Studio Center in the Red Mill Building on May 17, 2023 at 7:00 pm ET. This event is free and open to the public.
The following morning, Thursday, May 18, 10:00 – 11:00 AM, Talusan will present a writing craft talk in Mason House Library.
Grace Talusan is the author of The Body Papers, which won the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and the Massachusetts Book Award for Nonfiction, and was a New York Times Editors' Choice selection. Talusan has published in Creative Nonfiction, The New York Times, Boston magazine, The Boston Globe, and other outlets and anthologies, including Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings. In 2022, she was awarded fellowships from United States Artists, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Brother Thomas Fund. She teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program at Brown University.
The 2023 Visiting Writers Program is generously supported by The Rona Jaffe Foundation.
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