Stacey Balkun is the author of Sweetbitter and co-editor of Fiolet & Wing. Winner of the New South Writing Contest, her creative and critical work has appeared in Attached to the Living World, Best New Poets, Mississippi Review, and several other anthologies and journals. Balkun holds a PhD in Literature from the University of Mississippi, Oxford, where she was awarded the Holdich Scholar Award, and an MFA in Poetry from Fresno State. She teaches online at The Poetry Barn and the University of New Orleans.

Schedule

Noon to 12:45 pm
A.Z. Young Park, Author Tent B
For Better or For Worse: The Moments that Define – and Decide – a Marriage
Constance Adler, Sight Unseen: A Novel
Jonathan Evison, The Heart of Winter: A Novel
with moderator Stacey Balkun

1:15 pm to 2:00 pm
Bienville Building, Conference Center 118
Memoirs and Misadventures: Humorous Essays on Growing Up, Giving Up, and Getting Wiser
Lucie Frost, How the Hell Did I Not Know That?: My Midlife Year from Couch to Curiosity
Cason E. O’Banion, Fire Ants: Essays Around and About Texarkana
with moderator Stacey Balkun

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