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The Nation Columnist Katha Pollitt to Read at USM Stonecoast MFA Event in Freeport on January 11 January 3, 2008 Contact: Robin Talbot Editor’s Note: Katha Pollitt, award-wining columnist for The Nation is available for interviews. Please contact Robin Talbot to arrange interviews at 207-615-1363, 207-780-4428, or rtalbot@usm.maine.edu. The University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing program and the Freeport Public Library present: “Stonecoast for the Community ’08: A Public Reading” featuring: Stonecoast faculty member Julia Spencer Fleming, Stonecoast Book Prize winner Penelope Schwartz Robinson, and The Nation columnist Katha Pollitt. This free public reading will take place 7:30 p.m., Friday, January 11, in the Freeport Community Center, 53 Depot St., Freeport. For more information, call 780-4428. Katha Pollitt is well known her "Subject to Debate" column, which The Washington Post called "the best place to go for original thinking on the left.” The column appears every other week in The Nation, and in 2003, won the National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary. Among her awards are National Magazine Award for essays and criticism, the Whiting Foundation Writing Award and the Maggie Award from the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Many of Pollitt's contributions to The Nation are compiled in three books: “Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism” (Knopf); “Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture” (Modern Library); and “Virginity or Death! And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time” (Random House). She also contributed essays and book reviews for a variety of publications including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper's, The New York Times, and the London Review of Books. Additionally, she appeared on NPR's “Fresh Air” and “All Things Considered,” CNN, “Dateline NBC” and the BBC. Pollitt received a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship for her poetry, and her poems have been published in many magazines and anthologies, including “The Oxford Book of American Poetry” (2006). Born in New York City, she was educated at Harvard and the Columbia School of the Arts. She has lectured at dozens of colleges and universities, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and UCLA, taught poetry at Princeton and the 92nd Street Y, and women's studies at the New School University. Pollitt will be reading from her just-released collection of personal essays, “Learning to Drive and Other Life Stories.” Visit www.kathapollitt.com for upcoming appearances, interviews and more. Penelope Schwartz Robinson, a graduate of Stonecoast MFA’s inaugural class, has been a feature columnist for The Portland Press Herald, and her spoken essays have aired on both National and Maine Public Radio. She is a member of Three Genres in the Rain, a group of four writers who present readings of their work to benefit libraries around New England. Her work has been published in various publications including The Fourth Genre and Riverteeth. Her essays have received an AWP Intro-Journals Award in Nonfiction and been recognized as Notable in Best American Essays 2004. Julia Spencer-Fleming is a Portland, Maine area writer. A former military brat, she grew up in places as diverse as Mobile, Rome, Stuttgart and Syracuse. A graduate of Ithaca College, George Washington University and the University of Maine School of Law, she took up writing while still a stay-at-home mother of three. Her debut novel, “In the Bleak Midwinter,” won the St. Martin’s/Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery contest, the Independent Mystery Booksellers’ Association Dilys Award, and the Agatha, Anthony, Macavity, and Barry awards for Best First Novel. The third book in her series, “Out of the Deep I Cry,” was an Edgar and Anthony award finalist. The latest book in her bestselling Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne series is “All Mortal Flesh,” an Agatha, Gumshoe and Romantic Times RC Award finalist. She lives outside Portland with her three children, two dogs and husband. Visit her at www.juliaspencerfleming.com. The University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing program is a low-residency MFA program. Stonecoast provides a rigorous and open-minded two-year graduate education in the art of writing, with residencies conducted at the historic Stone House in Freeport. The program’s director is Annie Finch, the author of four volumes of poetry and poetry in translation, as well as five anthologies about poetry and two books of poetics.
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