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"A Sense of Place." |
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| HANCOCK, MI - April 17, 2009 Author Jan
Worth-Nelson presented a Writer's Journey seminar Thursday, at
the Finlandia University Chapel of St. Matthew, Hancock. |
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| pictured above Suzanne Van Dam introduced the Author to the audience. She stated that she herself was in the Peace Corps and felt connected to the Book. Night Blind is the fictional saga of a ragtag bunch of Peace Corps volunteers grappling with the 1976 murder of Peace Corps volunteer Deborah Gardner in the remote and eccentric Kingdom of Tonga. Worth-Nelson was a Peace Corps volunteer in Tonga from 1976-1978. | |||||||||
| Worth-Nelson teaches creative writing at University
of Michigan-Flint. She is also a poet, an essayist, and a fiction writer.
She published her first novel, Night Blind, in 2006. Jan began her book in the 70's and wasn't published for twenty years and finally published the book herself. She began her book with a young girl as a central character and later had to add an older female character to her book. Jan divides her time between Flint and San Pedro Ca. She has written poems about Michigan and Ohio and those poems express a different feeling then those she wrote about California. She and her husband were married on a cliff in California. Her friends at the time suggested that if she changed her mind she could always jump! Her poems have appeared in two editions of Contemporary Michigan
Poetry, published by Wayne State Press. Her essays, poems and other writings have been widely published including the Los Angeles Times, the Detroit Free Press, the Drexel Online Journal, Michigan Quarterly Review, Passages North, Fourth Genre, Controlled Burn and Marlboro Review. Night Blind was a top ten finalist in literary fiction for 2006 Book of
the Year awarded by ForeWord Magazine. The final Writer's Journey seminar is Monday, April 20, when Suzanne Strempek Shea will talk about her recent book, "Sundays in America." For additional information, please contact Suzanne Van Dam, Finlandia associate professor of English, at 906-487-7515 or suzanne.vandam@finlandia.edu. |
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