Writers at Work Series Presents Sarah Manguso
Muhlenberg College’s Writers-at-Work series returns with a reading and book signing by author Sarah Manguso on Tuesday, February 22, at 7 p.m. in the Hoffman House.Friday, February 18, 2011 11:45 AM
This event, sponsored by the Department of English, is free and open to the public.
Manguso’s most recent book is the memoir The Two Kinds of Decay, which was published in 2008. It was named an Editors' Choice by The New York Times Sunday Book Review and a “Best Book of the Year” by San Francisco Chronicle and Time Out Chicago, and was published in five countries.
She has received many honors for her writing, including: the Rome Prize, a Pushcart Prize, a Hodder Fellowship, and residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo. Her writing has been featured or is forthcoming in A Public Space, The Believer, Bookforum, Conjunctions, London Review of Books, Los Angeles Times, McSweeney's, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and three volumes of The Best American Poetry series.
She has been a faculty member of the BFA writing program at the Pratt Institute and of the MFA writing programs at Columbia, Fairfield, and the New School universities. Born and raised near Boston, MA, she was educated at Harvard University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is both a citizen of the United States and Ireland, and resides in Los Angeles, CA.
The Guardians, her next book, is a book-length essay studying grief, and will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Granta Books in 2012.
