The Pasadena City College English Department and Pasadena Festival of Women Authors will feature Brian Michael Murphy, a faculty member in media studies at Bennington College, on the PCC Visiting Writer Series on Thursday, November 19, 3 p.m., via Facebook Live.
PCC’s Visiting Writer Series is part of the Creative Writing program where students are given an opportunity to harness their creativity, develop their unique writing voices, and explore their craft and processes of creative composing with practicing writers and artists.
The Creative Writing Program exposes students to the history of creative writing, traditional genres and hybrid genres, a community of writers, the cultural impact that writers have on the world, and opportunities in editing and publishing.
Dr. Brian Michael Murphy is Director of the Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop. His book “We the Dead: Preserving Data at the End of the World” will be published in 2021 by the University of North Carolina Press. His essays and poems have appeared in Narrative, Waxwing, Kenyon Review, Media-N Fairy Tale Review, and in Italian translation in Acoma.
His work has won awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council, the Tinker Foundation, and the Ohio Arts Council. Recently, he helped relaunch The Northwest Review, where he is the Managing Editor and Nonfiction Editor.
Murphy holds a PhD in Comparative Studies from the Ohio State University, where he is a Presidential Fellow.
Proceeds from the Pasadena Festival of Women Authors are given in grants to literary programs in the community.
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