2005 - 2006
- Title: Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Belonging: Claiming and Collective and the Individual'
- Host Department: Institute for the Humanities
- Date: 12/04/2005 - 12/04/2005
- Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
- Location: Osterman Common Room, 0520 Rackham Building, 915 E Washington St, Ann Arbor
- Contact Information: Doretha Coval
dcoval@umich.edu
734 936 3518 - Description: Featuring Our Fellows Series
Karen E. Outen, author and Careers-in-the-Making Fellow - Detailed Information:
Is it the act of giving birth or the act of parenting that determines the mother-child bond? Is parenting a child not genetically one’s own an act of love or charity? Is estrangement between mother and child a reflection of personal or cultural history? Karen Outen will read excerpts from her novel-in-progress in which she explores issues of family, connectedness, and African-American identity.
Karen Outen graduated from University of Michigan’s MFA program in Creative Writing and received her undergraduate degree from Drew University. Her fiction has appeared in The North American Review, Essence Magazine, and Glimmer Train Stories. Her work has been included in the anthology Mother Knows: 24 Tales of Motherhood and in the forthcoming anthology, Where Love is Found. She has been the recipient of Hopwood Awards in short fiction and in the novel, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship, and the Glimmer Train Stories Fiction Open Contest First Prize. In addition, she received a Careers-in-the-Making Fellowship from the Institute for the Humanities.
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