Jeannie Vanasco, author of the memoir A Silent Treatment, will discuss her work as The University of Baltimore's 2026 MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts Speaker Series continues on Monday, April 13 at 7 p.m., in the Bogomolny Room of the UBalt Student Center, 21 W. Mt. Royal Ave. The event is free and open to the public.
Vanasco, who lives in Baltimore and teaches English at Towson University, is the author of three books of memoir, including Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl—a New York Times Editors' Choice and a best book of 2019 by TIME, Esquire, Kirkus Reviews, and elsewhere—and The Glass Eye, which was declared one of the five best literary nonfiction debuts of 2017 by Poets & Writers.
Vanasco is a 2014 Emerging Poets Fellow at Poets House and a 2014 recipient of the Amy Award from Poets & Writers. Her writing has appeared in the Believer, the Times Literary Supplement, Tin House, and elsewhere.
Last year's A Silent Treatment received critical acclaim from NPR, Electric Literature, and other outlets.
"Spirited in form and pensive with its subject, A Silent Treatment confronts both the complexity of family and the quandary of capturing a family's shapeshifting and perplexing love, their truthful and devoted love, in the amber of memoir," wrote author Megha Majumdar.
Vanasco, who grew up in Sandusky, Ohio, is currently working on her fourth book.
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