Essayist Allison Coffelt to give public reading on April 9

Published: 03/27/2019

Essayist Allison Coffelt will give a public reading and question-and-answer session at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, in the Social Sciences Building, Room 1102. This reading is part of the 2019 Missouri Writers Series, sponsored and underwritten by the Missouri Humanities Council.

Allison Coffelt is the author of Maps Are Lines We Draw, which explores the culture and natural beauty of Haiti. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Hippocampus, Oxford Public Health Magazine, the Crab Orchard Review and elsewhere. She was a finalist in the 2015 Crab Orchard Review Literary Nonfiction Prize and the winner of the 2015 University of Missouri Essay Prize. She currently works as the director of education and outreach for the annual True/False Film Fest and hosts the True/False Podcast.

This event is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Joe Baumann at 636-922-8609 or jbaumann@stchas.edu.

St. Charles Community College is a public, comprehensive two-year community college with associate degrees and certificate programs in the arts, business, sciences and career-technical fields. SCC provides workforce training and community-based personal and professional development as well as cultural, recreational and entertainment opportunities. For more information, visit www.stchas.edu.