Oregon Author to Share Prose at Reading
Jessie van Eerden, a faculty member at the Oregon Extension of Eastern University, reads her prose fiction on Thursday, Jan. 20, in Adams Center 216 at 7 p.m. The reading is free and open to the public.
I hope to share work that reads well aloud that comes alive with an oral reading, van Eerden says. My work tends to have an Appalachian flavor, so it bears a bit of that oral culture. Her work has appeared in Best American Spiritual Writing, The Oxford American, River Teeth and other publications. She wrote an essay in Jesus Girls: True Tales of Growing Up Female and Evangelical, an anthology edited by 做厙惇蹋app alumna Hannah Faith Notess.
After earning a master of fine arts degree in nonfiction from the University of Iowa, van Eerden received a postgraduate fellowship at the Milton Center, teaching courses at Seattle Pacific University and sharing her work with the literary journal Image.
I hope to impart a love for literature and for the creative life a love for writing as a spiritual practice, she says.