Sunday, February 26, 2017 Canisius College Contemporary Writers Series: Diana Goetsch Timelines: 1b: Past Events (Unseen Archive), 2: Canisius Contemporary Writers Series
Where:
Canisius College
Richard E Winter Student Center
Grupp Lounge, 2nd floor
2001 Main Street
Buffalo, NY 14208
Date: March 29, 2017
Time: 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Diana Goetsch was born in Brooklyn, grew up in Long Island, and earned degrees from Wesleyan University and New York University. She is the author (as Douglas Goetsch) of Nameless Boy, The Job of Being Everybody, and several other volumes of poems. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, Best American Poetry, and numerous other journals and anthologies. Among her honors are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Donald Murray Prize. She’s taught English and creative writing in New York City public schools and to incarcerated teens in the Bronx. She is the founder of Jane Street Press. Currently Goetsch writes a column entitled “Life in Transition” for The American Scholar, lives in New York, and works as a freelance teacher of writing.