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Next Up at Ivy Hall: Kate Sweeney
March 30, 2014 | Leave a Comment
While pursuing her M.F.A. at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, Kate Sweeney interviewed obituary writers, funeral directors and ordinary Americans involved with death and memorialization. The result is “American Afterlife,” a nonfiction account of the poignancy of grief and sorrow, and the unsavory side of the business of death.
Sweeney lives in Atlanta, where she writes and creates public radio stories that appear regularly on Atlanta’s NPR station, WABE 90.1 FM. She has won three Edward R. Murrow awards and a number of Associated Press awards for her work, and her writing has appeared in Oxford American, Utne Reader, Atlanta Magazine and New South. She is curator of the popular bimonthly non-fiction reading series True Story, and has taught creative writing and English at Emory Continuing Education, Clayton State University and the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
In addition to her lecture, Sweeney will also host a workshop for SCAD’s writing students. Both events are scheduled for April 3rd. The workshop will begin at 3:30 p.m., and the lecture, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 6 p.m. Both events will take place at SCAD Atlanta’s Ivy Hall.