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Join Assistant Professor of English Amy Butcher in Conversation On Join Assistant Professor of English Amy Butcher in conversation on feminism, the writing process, and the role of pop culture in identifying and addressing larger societal issues. The author of the memoir Visiting Hours and recent columnist for the New York Times Sunday Review, Amy will share insight on the writing process, what attracts an editor, and how our personal stories can be shaped and rendered to resonate with an outside audience. Amy Butcher is the recent grand prize recipient of the 2016 Solas Awards’ “Best of Travel Writing” series and her work has recently been selected for inclusion in Best Travel Writing 2016, earned a notable distinction in Best American Essays 2015, and awarded grand prize in the 2014 Iowa Review Award in nonfiction as judged by David Shields. Her 2016 op-ed, “Emoji Feminism,” published in the New York Times Sunday Review, inspired Google to create thirteen new female-empowered emojis, due out later this year. Additional work has appeared in The New York Times, The Iowa Review, Guernica, Gulf Coast, Fourth Genre, The Rumpus, The Paris Review online, Tin House online, and Brevity, among others, and has been anthologized in Tell It True: The Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction, The Best Of Vela, and The Best Travel Writing 2016. She is a recent recipient of Colgate University's Olive B. O'Connor Creative Writing fellowship as well as grants and awards from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, Word Riot Inc., and the Stanley Foundation for International Research. She currently teaches a range of courses on the essay and literary journalism at Ohio Wesleyan University and annually at the Sitka Fine Arts Camp in Sitka, Alaska. Read “Pokémon Go See The World In Its Splendor,” her July 17th 2016 opinion piece in the New York Times Sunday Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/17/opinion/sunday/pokemon-go-see-the-world-in-its- splendor.html Read Emoji Feminism, her March 11th, 2016 opinion piece in the New York Times Sunday Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/opinion/sunday/emoji-feminism.html?_r=1 .
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