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A Conversation with Elena Passarello

October 9, 2020 @ 11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Free
Online, N/A, Portland, OR 97207

Join us for a conversation with actor and non-fiction writer, Elena Passarello. Ms. Passarello will discuss writing and publishing creative non-fiction, and her essay, “Twinkle, Twinkle Vogel Staar, On Mozart’s Feathered Collaborator,” originally published in Virginia Quarterly Review. (Link here.)

Elena Passarello is an actor, writer, and recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award. Her first collection Let Me Clear My Throat (Sarabande, 2012), won the gold medal for nonfiction at the 2013 Independent Publisher Awards and was a finalist for the 2014 Oregon Book Award. Her essays on performance, pop culture, and the natural world have been published in Oxford American, Slate, Creative Nonfiction, and The Iowa Review, among other publications, as well as in the 2015 anthologies Cat is Art Spelled Wrong and After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essay.

Passarello has performed in several regional theaters in the East and Midwest, originating roles in the premieres of Christopher Durang’s Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge and David Turkel’s Wild Signs and Holler. In 2011, she became the first woman winner of the annual Stella Screaming Contest in New Orleans. She lives in Corvallis, Oregon and teaches at Oregon State University.

Event Cost

Free

Event Contact

Click here to join our Zoom event at 11:30 am, PST

Venue

Online
N/A
Portland, OR 97207

Organizer

Lewis & Clark English Department
Phone:
503-768-7405
Email:
english@lclark.edu
Website:
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