CONWAY — Creative writer Heather Sellers will visit the University of Central Arkansas as artist in residence Nov. 8 and 9.
Sellers’ latest volume, the memoir You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know, was selected as an Oprah Winfrey Book Club pick in November 2010 and was also chosen as a New York Times Notable Book.
Sellers will give a public reading at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8 in the College of Business building, Room 107.
A book-signing will follow.
On Nov. 9, she will givea craft lecture and hold a questionand - an - swer session at 10 a.m. in Thompson Hall331; and a Q&A on Writing for Children and Creative Nonfiction at 1 p.m. in Thompson 331.
All residency events are free and open to the public.
“Heather Sellers is a personal and literary dynamo,”said John Vanderslice, associate professor of writing and the faculty sponsor for the residency. “She is one of the hardest-working writers in America.”
You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know tells the story of Sellers’ face blindness, a neurological disorder that prevents her from recognizing people by face. It reveals the deeper truth that even in the most flawed circumstances, “love may be seen and felt.”
S el lers te aches p o et r y writing, fiction writing and creative nonfiction writing at Hope College inHolland, Mich.
Her short-story collection Georgia Under Water (2001) was selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program. She has also published three volumes of poetry, most recently The Boys I Borrow (2007).
“Our students can and shou ld le ar n much f rom Sellers about both the craft of writing and the obligations of the writing life, a subject about which she feels deeply and has written profoundly,” Vanderslice said. “With her passion, her energy and her commitment to thelife-changing power of the written word, I expect our students will not only be moved by her but spellbound.”
For more information, contact Vanderslice at (501) 450-3653 or johnv@uc a.edu.
River Valley Ozark, Pages 58 on 10/27/2011