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Memoirs Panel: Triumph of the Human Spirit

Duff Brenna   Duff Brenna is the author of nine books, including The Book of Mamie, which won the AWP Award for Best Novel; The Holy Book of the Beard, named “an underground classic” by The New York Times; Too Cool, a New York Times noteworthy book; and The Altar of the Body, given the Favorite Book of the Year Award from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Brenna also received a San Diego Writers Association Award for Best Novel 2002. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts award, Milwaukee Magazine’s Best Short Story of the Year Award, and a Pushcart Prize Honorable Mention. Read More...   Lucille Lang Day   Lucille Lang Day, author of Married at Fourteen: A True Story (Heyday, 2012), has published creative nonfiction in The Hudson Review, Istanbul Literary Review, Passages North, River Oak Review, Willow Review, and many other journals. She is also the author of a children's book, Chain Letter, and eight poetry collections and chapbooks, including The Curvature of Blue, Infinities, and The Book of Answers. Her first poetry collection, Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope, received the Joseph Henry Jackson Award. Read More... Paula Priamos   Paula Priamos's writing has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, and the Washington Post Magazine. An excerpt of her memoir appeared in ZYZZYVA. She contributed to the anthology Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer (Random House, 2008). Priamos teaches English and Creative Writing at CSU San Bernardino. Read More...   With Moderator...  Barbara DeMarco-Barrett