Intended Audience
Thursday, Janiuary 25, DPC
Join nonfiction writers Jennifer Cognard-Black, Melissa Goldthwaite, SMCM alum Will Becker, Adrienne Su, and Taté Walker to celebrate the publication of Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically newly out from NYU Press and co-edited by Dr. Cognard-Black!
Will Becker is a writer and St. Mary’s College of Maryland alumnus who went on to earn his MA in Critical & Creative Writing from the University of Sussex, where he graduated at the top of his program. His work has appeared in such publications as Quick Fiction UK, Patapsco Valley Living, and SlackWater, while his essay “Men & Meat” can be found in Good Eats, an anthology recently published by NYU Press. He lives in Atlanta.
Jennifer Cognard-Black, Professor of English at St. Mary's College of Maryland teaches seminars in women novelists, Victorian adaptations, and the literatures of food as well as writing workshops in fiction, creative nonfiction, and food writing. A two-time Fulbright scholar to The Netherlands and Slovenia and the winner of the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching, Jennifer has produced two lecture series with The Great Courses and one for Audible on Food & Fiction. She is also the author or co-editor of six books, including two collections of food writing, both co-edited with her long-time collaborator Melissa Goldthwaite: Books that Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal and a second volume of creative nonfiction essays, Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically.
Melissa A. Goldthwaite, Professor of English, teaches rhetorical theory and creative writing at Saint Joseph’s University. Melissa is the author or co-editor of many books, including The St. Martin’s Guide to Teaching Writing (with Cheryl Glenn); Surveying the Literary Landscapes of Terry Tempest Williams (with Katherine R. Chandler); The Norton Pocket Book of Writing by Students; The Norton Reader (with Joseph Bizup and Anne Fernald); Food, Feminisms, Rhetorics; Books That Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal (with Jennifer Cognard-Black); The Little Norton Reader: 50 Essays from the First Fifty Years; and Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically (with Jennifer Cognard-Black).
Adrienne Su is the author of five books of poems, most recently Peach State (2021), which was named a 2022 Book All Georgians Should Read. Her poems appear in many anthologies, including five volumes of The Best American Poetry. Among her awards are a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Yaddo, and The Frost Place. An Atlanta native, Adrienne lives in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where she is Professor of Creative Writing at Dickinson College. Her first collection of essays, Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet, is forthcoming from Paul Dry Books in 2024.
Taté Walker (they/them) is a Lakota citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota and an award-winning Two Spirit storyteller for outlets such as The Nation, Everyday Feminism, Native Peoples Magazine, Indian Country Today, and ANMLY. Their work is also featured in several anthologies, including FIERCE: Essays by and about Dauntless Women, South Dakota in Poems, and W. W. Norton’s Everyone’s an Author. Their first full-length poetry book, The Trickster Riots, was published in 2022, by Abalone Mountain Press. Taté is a 2023 ASU Poetry & the Senses Fellow and the 2023 Storyknife Fireweed Fellow. Taté uses their fifteen-plus years of experience working for daily newspapers, social justice organizations, and tribal education systems to organize students and professionals around issues of critical cultural competency, anti-racism / anti-bias, and inclusive community building. Find out more at www.jtatewalker.com.