IN PRINT 2
The second annual IN PRINT Festival at Ball State University welcomed these special guests:
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| Nickole Brown | Joy Castro | Victoria Chang | Ander Monson |
On Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006 at 7 p.m. in the Museum of Art, Room 217, Joy Castro, Victoria Chang, & Ander Monson read from their freshly minted books (memoir, poetry, & fiction, respectively). The following evening, Thursday, March 23rd at 7 p.m., in Room 101 of Teachers College, the IN PRINT authors joined Nickole Brown, the marketing director of Sarabande Books in Louisville, for a panel discussion on the writing and publishing of a first book.
The 2005-2006 Visiting Writers Series is sponsored by Creative Writing in the Department of English at Ball State University.
Ander Monson signs a copy of his short stories collection entitled Other
Electricities. Photo taken by Elizabeth Nave.
Victoria Chang signs a copy of her poetry book Circle for graduate
Creative Writing student Rachel Hartley-Smith. Photo taken by
Elizabeth Nave.
Authors Ander Monson, Victoria Chang, and Joy Castro chat amongst
themselves. Photo taken by Elizabeth Nave.
The First Book Writers:
Joy Castro’s first book, a memoir entitled The Truth Book: Escaping a Childhood of Abuse Among Jehovah's Witnesses was published by Arcade Publishing in 2005. Born in Miami, she studied literature at Trinity University and Texas A&M University. Her honors include the Charles Gordone Award for Poetry and a Frank B. Vogel Scholarship in nonfiction at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and her short fiction and creative nonfiction appear in anthologies and in journals such as North American Review, Cream City Review, Chelsea, Quarterly West, and Puerto del Sol. Now an associate professor at Wabash College, Castro lives in Crawfordsville, a small town in rural Indiana.
Victoria Chang's first book of poetry, Circle, won the Crab Orchard Review Award Series in Poetry, published by Southern Illinois University Press. Her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in publications such as The Nation, Poetry, The New Republic, Threepenny Review, Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Slate, and Best American Poetry 2005. She is the editor of an anthology entitled Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation, published by The University of Illinois Press. She has received a BreadLoaf Scholarship and Fellowship and holds degrees from the University of Michigan and Stanford and an MFA from Warren Wilson. She resides in Los Angeles and is attending the Ph.D. program in Literature and Creative Writing at USC.
Ander Monson’s first two books were published in May 2005: Other Electricities, a sort-of novel, by Sarabande Books, and Vacationland, poems, by Tupelo Press. He lives in Michigan where he edits the literary magazine DIAGRAM and the New Michigan Press, and teaches creative writing at Grand Valley State University. His work has appeared widely in literary magazines like Ploughshares, North American Review, Fence, FIELD, and the Boston Review.
& The Book Marketing Expert:
Nickole Brown is a poet and fiction writer. She graduated from the M.F.A. Program for Creative Writing at Vermont College and is working on a collection of short stories. She graduated summa cum laude from University of Louisville in 1996, studied English Literature at Oxford University, and was the editorial assistant for Hunter S. Thompson in 1997. Her work has been featured in The Writer's Chronicle and Mammoth Books' 2003 Sudden Stories anthology, and she co-edited the anthology, Air Fare: Stories, Poems, & Essays on Flight (2004). Nickole is the Marketing Director at Sarabande Books in Louisville, where she has worked for six years.