CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium

Left to right: Laila Lalami, Angela Joya, Miriam Gershow, Michael Najjar, Lamia Karim, and Liz Bohls, with creative writing professor Jason Brown watching from the audience.

Panel Discussion: Laila Lalami’s Pulitzer finalist novel, "The Moor’s Account"

Commentary presented by Miriam Gershow, Novelist & Associate Director of Composition, Department of English

Author

Miriam Gershow

Elizabeth Bohls

Publication Year

2018

Publication type

Annual Review

Laila Lalami delivered her keynote at the Eugene Public Library / all photographs by Jack Liu.

The Border and Its Meaning: Forgotten Stories

Reported by Alice Evans

Author

Alice Evans

Publication Year

2018

Publication type

Annual Review

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