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2011 Minrose Gwin
Minrose Gwin’s The Queen of Palmyra, was selected a John Gardner Fiction Book Award finalist and a Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” book. Wishing for Snow, a memoir about the convergence of poetry and psychosis in her mother’s life, was hailed by Booklist as “eloquent” and “lyrical”—“a real life story we all need to hear.” Minrose teaches literature at the University of North Carolina and comes from a small town in Mississippi.
SCHEDULE
10 AM – 10:45 AM
State Museum, Third Floor
Discussion
Blindness and Insight: Women's Struggles
Book Signing
11 AM – 11:45 AM
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
House Committee Room 3
Discussion
The Intimate Art of Memoir:
Breaking Down the Barriers between Our Readers and Ourselves