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Writer Elizabeth Kirschner to Celebrate Release of New Memoir WAKING THE BONES at West End Theatre
By: Tyler Peterson Apr. 21, 2016
Kirschner's WAKING THE BONES, published by RiverRun Books last spring, was the winner of the Inaugural North Street Book Prize for best work of nonfiction by an independent author. The book was selected out of a field of four hundred international entries. The cover art is Heghinian Walzer's.
Kirschner has published six previous volumes of poetry, including, Surrender to Light, 2009, Cherry Grove Editions and My Life as a Doll, 2008, Autumn House Press. My Life as a Doll was nominated for the Lenore Marshall Prize and named Kirschner as the Literary Arts Fellow in state of Maine in 2010. She has also published over two dozen essays with The Coal Hill Review and is widely published in other literary magazines, both nationally and internationally.
She has been writing and teaching across four decades. Most recently, she taughtin Fairfield University's low-residency Program in Creative Writing. Extensive teachingexperience includes Boston College, Boston University and Carnegie-Mellon University. She now offers local Poetry and Memoir Writing Workshops.
Kirschner has been collaborating with Pamela Marshall and Sirarpi Heghinian Walzer for years. In 2014, they created a performance piece with WAKING THE BONES at The Dance Hall, in Kittery Point, ME. She currently lives in a cottage named Sea Cabin on the water in Kittery Point, ME, with her old dog, Larka.
This special evening will include a reading paired with music and art, followed by a Question and Answer session and a book signing. Light refreshments will be served.
Thank you,
Elizabeth Kirschner
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