Aracelis Girmay, 41st Annual ODU Literary Festival
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Document Type
Featured Participant
Festival Date
10-22-2018
Location
University Theatre
Author/Artist Bio
Aracelis Girmay was born and raised in Southern California, never far from the mighty Pacific. She is the author of The Black Maria (BOA Editions, 2016); Kingdom Animalia (BOA Editions, 2011), winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Teeth (Curbstone Press, 2007). She is also the author of the collage-based picture book changing, changing. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Civitella Ranieri, the Whiting Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2017 she was a finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature and was named a recipient of the 2017-2018 June Jordan Fellowship. Girmay lives with her family in New York and is on the editorial board of the African Poetry Book Fund.
Description
Monday, October 22, 4:00 p.m.
Tim Seibles, Co-Dirtector, welcomes the audience and introduces Kelly Morse. Morse introduces Aracelis Girmay.
Video Runtime: 00:48:44
File Size: 250MB
File Type: Video/Mp4
Recommended Citation
Girmay, Aracelis, "Aracelis Girmay, 41st Annual ODU Literary Festival" (2018). 41st Annual Literary Festival at ODU: October 21-25, 2018. 13.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/litfest-2018/13