Latria Graham: Iron in Blood, Iron in Clay  

Tying together the skies above us and the ground below us 

Part reading, part creative generation, this heart filling hour with Latria Graham, Bloedel’s December Creative Resident and an award-winning magazine feature writer from Spartanburg, South Carolina, is a very special offering for the community as she invites us to explore our relationships to creativity and land.

Creative writing of the past can help us understand an environment in crisis. We are all witnesses, and our observations of the weather, soil, plants, and wildlife around us present ways that we can talk about our interior lives and memories. The class will begin with a short formal reading highlighting Latria’s personal connection to the natural world and then launch into a short conversation about the art of nature writing. Participants will leave the event with writing prompts and ideas that they can continue to develop once the creative session is over.

WHERE
BARN, in the Great Room

8890 Three Tree Lane NE
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110

WHEN
Dec 8, 3:30-4:30 PM

COST
FREE

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About Latria Graham

Latria Graham’s work has appeared in the New York Times, LA Times, The Guardian, espnW, Southern Living, and The Atlantic. She is the ethical travel columnist for Afar Magazine, as well as the writer behind Garden & Gun’s “This Land” column, which uses time, place, and memory to document and investigate the lesser known or rapidly disappearing aspects of the natural world in the South.

An Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in Augusta University’s English and World Languages department, she is also a Distinguished Professor of Practice at the University of Georgia’s Narrative Nonfiction MFA program housed in the Grady College of Mass Communication & Journalism. Her forthcoming book, Uneven Ground: A Memoir of a Family, a Land, and a Culture in Peril, about her attempt to preserve her family’s century-old farm and sense of rootedness, will be published by Mariner, a division of HarperCollins.

An Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in Augusta University’s English and World Languages department, she is also a Distinguished Professor of Practice at the University of Georgia’s Narrative Nonfiction MFA program housed in the Grady College of Mass Communication & Journalism. Her forthcoming book, Uneven Ground: A Memoir of a Family, a Land, and a Culture in Peril, about her attempt to preserve her family’s century-old farm and sense of rootedness, will be published by Mariner, a division of HarperCollins.

Literary Agent: Leslie Meredith at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret. lmeredith@dystel.com 

Photo Credit Carlo Nasisse