Jaimy Gordon & Bonnie Jo Campbell Panel
A Panel Discussion with Jaimy Gordon and Bonnie Jo Campbell at Notre Dame Jaimy Gordon, author of the 2010 National Book Award-winning novel Lord of Misrule, and Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of 2009 National Book Award finalist American Salvage, will host a panel to discuss the current literary landscape and their own work on Thursday, February 16th, 2012, in the Notre Dame Room of the LaFortune Student Center on Notre Dame’s campus. The panel begins at 3:30 PM.
Jaimy Gordon was born in Baltimore, graduated from Antioch College in 1966, received an M.A. in English from Brown University in 1972, and earned Doctor of Arts in Creative Writing in l975, also from Brown. In addition to Lord of Misrule, she has published three other novels—Bogeywoman, which was on the Los Angeles Times list of Best Fiction of 2000; Shamp of the City-Solo, an underground fantasy classic; and She Drove Without Stopping, a woman’s road novel. She has also authored a novella, Circumspections from an Equestrian Statue, and a narrative poem, The Bend, The Lip, The Kid, and translates the fiction of Maria Beig from the German. Gordon has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and has been a Fellow at both the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where she teaches in the MFA program of Western Michigan University.
Bonnie Jo Campbell grew up on a small Michigan farm with her mother and four siblings. She studied philosophy at the University of Chicago, received her M.A. in mathematics and her M.F.A. in writing from Western Michigan University, and has since hitchhiked across the U.S. and Canada, scaled the Swiss alps on her bicycle, and traveled with the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus selling snow cones. Her collection Women and Other Animals details the lives of extraordinary females in rural and small town Michigan, and it won the AWP prize for short fiction; her story "The Smallest Man in the World" has been awarded a Pushcart Prize. Her novel Q Road investigates the lives of a rural community where development pressures are bringing unwelcome change in the character of the land. Her critically-acclaimed short fiction collection American Salvage, which consists of fourteen lush and rowdy stories of folks who are struggling to make sense of the twenty-first century, was a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in Fiction. She now lives with her husband and other animals outside Kalamazoo, and she teaches writing in the low residency program at Pacific University.
The panel is free and open to the public.
