Honoring Adrienne Rich, 1929–2012 ( ) kentucky women writersconference September 20–23, 2012 Our Presenters Kim Addonizio has been called “one of Debra Gwartney is the author of the our nation’s most provocative and edgy memoir Live Through This, a finalist for poets.” Her latest books are Lucifer at the the National Book Critics Circle Award. Starlite and Ordinary Genius: A Guide for With her husband Barry Lopez, she was the Poet Within. Her collection Tell Me was co-editor of Home Ground: Language for a finalist for the National Book Award. an American Landscape. Debra is on the Addonizio offers private workshops in nonfiction faculty for Pacific University’s Oakland, CA and online. MFA in Writing program and lives in Oregon. Tara Betts is the author of Arc and Hue, Julia Johnson is the author of two her debut collection. She represented poetry collections, The Falling Horse and Chicago twice at the National Poetry Slam Naming the Afternoon, winner of the and has performed in Cuba, London, and Fellowship of Southern Writers’ New New York. Betts has taught creative writ- Writing Award. She grew up in New ing at Rutgers University, is a Cave Canem Orleans and recently became associate fellow, and is a Ph.D candidate at Bing- professor of English at the University hamton University in New York. of Kentucky. Karen Joy Fowler is the author The Jane Kelly Link is the author of three col- Austen Book Club, which spent thirteen lections of short stories, Stranger Things weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Happen, Magic for Beginners, and Pretty Her novel Sister Noon was a finalist for the Monsters. She operates Small Beer Press 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award. Her debut with her husband, Gavin J. Grant, in novel, Sarah Canary, was a New York Times Northhampton, MA. Notable Book, as was her second novel, The Sweetheart Season. Fowler’s short story Ruth Reichl is the author of four best- collection Black Glass won the World Fantasy Award. selling memoirs, Tender at the Bone, Com- fort Me with Apples, Garlic and Sapphires, dream hampton has written about music, and For You Mom, Finally, and is at work culture and politics in the Village Voice, the on a fifth. She was editor-in-chief of Detroit News, Harper’s Bazaar, Essence and a Gourmet magazine for ten years until its dozen anthologies, most recently Born to closing in 2009, restaurant critic of the Use Mics: Reading Nas’s Illmatic. She co-au- New York Times (1993–1999), and both thored Black Book with Shawn Jay-Z Carter the restaurant critic and food editor of the Los Angeles and collaborated with him on Decoded. Times (1984–1993). Her first novel,Delicious! , will be published in summer 2013. Rebecca Gayle Howell is a poet, transla- tor, and documentarian. Her forthcoming Naomi Wallace’s major plays include poetry collection, Render / An Apocalypse One Flea Spare, In the Heart of America, was selected by Nick Flynn for the CSU Slaughter City, The Trestle at Pope Lick Poetry Center’s First Book Prize. Her Creek, And I and Silence, and The Fever translation of Amal al-Jubouri’s Hagar Chart: Three Short Visions of the Middle Before the Occupation / Hagar After the East. Her work has received the Susan Occupation was a Library Journal best book Smith Blackburn Prize, the Kessel- of 2011. A Kentucky native, Howell is currently a PhD ring Prize, the Fellowship of Southern candidate at Texas Tech University. Writers Drama Award, an Obie, and the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship. She received a 2012 Horton Foote Prize for The Liquid Plains, premiering in 2013. About the cover: Poet, feminist, and essayist Adrienne Rich was a One Flea Spare was incorporated into the repertoire of presenter at the conference in 1981, the same year her book A Wild La Comédie Francais, where it was produced in 2012. Patience Has Taken Me This Far was published. Her filmsLawn Dogs and The War Boys are available on DVD. 2 | Special Guests Sallie Bingham published her first novel with Hough- Rona Roberts hosts the blog Savoring Kentucky, and ton Mifflin in 1961 and is the author of over ten books recently published Sweet, Sweet Sorghum: Kentucky’s Golden of fiction, poetry, memoir, and plays. She established the Wonder. She is a convenor for Lexington’s weekly Local Kentucky Foundation for Women in 1985. Her newest Food Percolator lunch. She and husband Steve Kay host collection of stories, Mending, was published in 2011. weekly Cornbread Suppers, and you are always invited. Ryan Case is the Co-Artistic, Managing Director of Author of three volumes of poetry, Leatha Kendrick Balagula Theatre in Lexington and was seen on the stage leads workshops in poetry and life writing. Her fiction, most recently in the title role for Caligula. For more poetry and essays appear widely in journals and antholo- information on Ryan’s acting, directing, and producing gies. Two of her books of poetry are indexed in NYU’s credits, please visit www.balagula.com Literature, Arts, and Medicine database. Sarah Fritschner is editor of Edible Louisville, a food Affrilachian Poet and Cave Canem Fellow Bianca writer for Kentucky Living magazine, and coordinator Spriggs is the author of Kaffir Lily and How Swallowtails of Louisville Farm to Table. She is the author of four Become Dragons. A 2013 recipient of an Al Smith Indi- cookbooks, including Sarah Fritschner’s Derby Start to Fin- vidual Artist Fellowship, Spriggs, in partnership with ish and Sarah Fritschner’s Holidays. She was a journalist for KY Domestic Violence Association, is the creator of the Washington Post and the Florida Times-Union, and was The SwallowTale Project: creative writing for incarcer- longtime food editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal. ated women. Carrie Green’s poems have appeared in journals includ- Anna Sproul-Latimer is a literary agent at the Wash- ing Blackbird, Cave Wall, and Crab Orchard Review. The ington, D.C.-based Ross Yoon Agency. She received a Kentucky Foundation for Women awarded her and the B.A. from Columbia and an M.A. from Oxford, both in artist Lori Larusso a grant to publish the collaborative twentieth-century English literature. In her spare time, chapbook It’s Not My Birthday, That’s Not My Cake (2011). she is a freelance editor, writer, and ghostwriter, so she can sympathize about how much work and persistence it Melissa A. McEuen is Professor of History at Tran- takes to write a book. sylvania University and the author of two books about American women in the 20th century. She is co-editor Crystal Wilkinson is the author of two books, Black- and a contributor for Kentucky Women: Their Lives and berries, Blackberries and Water Street. Her forthcoming Times (forthcoming from U. Georgia Press), for which novel is The Birds of Opulence. She teaches in the writing she is researching the Slow Food Movement. programs at Spaulding University and Morehead State University and is co-owner, with husband Ron Davis, of Tori Murden McClure is an explorer and adventurer the independent bookstore The Wild Fig. whose travels have taken her to Kenya, Antarctica, and Mt. Rainer. She was the first woman to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and her adventures are depicted in Thursday, September 20 her memoir, A Pearl in the Storm. She became president of Spalding University in 2010. She holds degrees from 12:20–1:20 p.m. Smith College, Harvard University, University of Louis- Poetry Craft Talk with Tara Betts at ville, and Spalding University. the Writing Center, Transylvania University Stella Parks graduated from the Culinary Institute of 7:00–8:30 p.m. America in 2002 and now works at Table 310. This year, “The Shadow History of Women in Hip Hop Food & Wine magazine named her one of America’s Beginning with the Black Panther Party” Best New Pastry Chefs. She writes for Gilt Taste, Serious Sonia Sanchez keynote presentation with Eats and her own blog, BraveTart. Her first book,Sweet dream hampton Truth: the Secret History of Iconic American Desserts, will be The Lyric Theatre, 300 E. 3rd Street, downtown Lexington published by Norton in 2014. warm up at 6:30 p.m. with DJ Miss Erin Green and rappers Samirah Hall and TSmilez | 3 Friday, September 21 All daytime sessions are held at The Carnegie Center for 1:30–2:45 p.m. Literacy and Learning, 251 W. 2nd Street. “Live Through This” reading in memoir with Debra Gwartney 8:30–9:00 a.m. open to all registrants, second floor, Allen Room registration & complimentary continental breakfast “Pitching Nonfiction: What Agents, Editors, and 9:00–10:15 a.m. Marketing Teams Want to See from Your Book Proposal” seminar with Anna Sproul-Latimer “Adrienne Rich: Mother Poet— open to all registrants, second floor, Banks Room A Memorial Panel of Kentucky Writers” panel discussion with Sallie Bingham, Rebecca Gayle Howell, Ellen Rosenman, and Crystal Wilkinson small group workshops, 1:30–4:00 p.m. open to all registrants, second floor, Allen Room “Revision” workshop in poetry with Kim Addonizio “I’d Rather Do It Myself: The Self-Publishing Adventure” by reservation only, lower level, Caudill Room seminar with Rona Roberts open to all registrants, second floor, Dunnigan Room “Blessed Be the Truth-Tellers: Poets As Inspiration” workshop in poetry with Tara Betts, part 1 small group workshops, 9:00–11:30 a.m. by reservation only, lower level, Warren Room “First Impressions” “Ekphrastic Poetry” workshop in fiction withKaren Joy Fowler, part 1 workshop in poetry with Julia Johnson, part 1 by reservation only, lower level, Caudill Room by reservation only, lower level, Wells Brown Room “Writing About Trauma” workshop with Debra Gwartney, part 1 3:00–4:15 p.m.