{"id":20345,"date":"2020-11-10T15:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/?p=20345"},"modified":"2020-11-10T15:00:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T20:00:43","slug":"esu-launches-writers-write-writers-chat-series-with-immigrant-author-grace-talusan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/esu-launches-writers-write-writers-chat-series-with-immigrant-author-grace-talusan\/","title":{"rendered":"ESU Launches \u201cWriters Write\/Writers Chat\u201d Series With Immigrant Author Grace Talusan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>East Stroudsburg University\u2019s English Department and the College of Arts and Sciences will sponsor the University\u2019s first \u201cWriters Write\/Writers Chat\u201d virtual literary reading event with memoirist Grace Talusan, author of The Body Papers, on Monday, November 16 at 4 p.m. The event is open to the general public at no cost. Those interested in attending and participating in this initiative may do so by logging on to ZOOM at <a href=\"https:\/\/esu-online.zoom.us\/j\/99512965969\">https:\/\/esu-online.zoom.us\/j\/99512965969<\/a>. Attendees are asked to please log in with their full name.<\/p>\n<p>According to her website, Grace Talusan was born in the Philippines and raised in New England. A graduate of Tufts University and the MFA program in writing at UC Irvine, she was the recipient of a U.S. Fulbright Fellowship to the Philippines and an Artist Fellowship Award from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Talusan is currently the Fannie Hurst Writer-in-Residence at Brandeis University. Her first book, The Body Papers, is a New York Times Editor\u2019s Choice selection, a Foreword INDIES Finalist and winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first event in the \u2018Writers Write\/Writers Chat\u2019 series, which is intended to inspire those interested in the writing life as an aspect of their professional goals,\u201d said Dr. Artress Bethany White, associate professor of English. \u201cThis particular event also has broad appeal for those interested in topics that include creative writing, diversity, gender, immigration, trauma and the female body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information about this event or the \u201cWriters Write\/Writers Chat\u201d series, please contact Dr. White at <a href=\"mailto:awhite43@esu.edu\">awhite43@esu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESU\u2019s English Department and the College of Arts and Sciences will sponsor the University\u2019s first \u201cWriters Write\/Writers Chat\u201d virtual literary reading event with memoirist Grace Talusan, author of The Body Papers, on Monday, November 16 at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,18,42,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-english","category-news-release","category-slider"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20347,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20345\/revisions\/20347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}