Susan Olding Reading - Monday Oct 7 at 2 pm

Posted on 2019-09-27 in Events, MFA in Writing News
Oct 7, 2019



Susan Olding will be giving a public reading on Monday October 7 from 2-3pm in ARTS 108.

Olding writes essays, poetry, fiction, and less easily classifiable things. Her writing has won a National Magazine Award, the TNQ’s Edna Staebler Essay Award, the Prairie Fire Contest, and two Event Creative Nonfiction contests, and appears widely in literary journals and anthologies throughout Canada and the US.

Her first book, Pathologies: A Life in Essays, has become a popular teaching text. A second book of essays is forthcoming from Freehand Books in 2021.

Currently, Susan is a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University, where her dissertation project is a hybrid work about transracial adoption.

For more information about the reading, contact english.department@usask.ca.