Writers In Person Series Welcomes Poets

Wednesday, October 16

              Jackson Community College will kick off its Writers in Person series for the year with nurse and poet Jeanne Bryner, and poet Diane Gilliam Fisher, on Wednesday, Oct. 16, at 9:30 a.m. in Bert Walker Hall Room 217, and again at 6 p.m. in BW 108. 

            Jeanne Bryner is a registered nurse, writer and teacher.  She is a graduate of Trumbull Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, and Kent State University's Honors College.  Her books in print are Breathless and Blind Horse.  Two books, Eclipse and Tenderly Lift Me, are forthcoming.  Jeanne will also present at 1 p.m. at Foote Hospital to JCC's student nurses.

            Diane Gilliam Fisher is the author of Recipe for Blackberry Cake, in the Wick Poetry Chapbook Series, Kent State University Press, and of One of Everything, forthcoming from the Cleveland State Poetry Center in 2003.  She's currently working on a collection of poems entitled Kettle Bottom, written in the voices of people living in the coal camps at the time of the 1920-21 West Virginia Mine Wars.  She is a graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, and lives with her husband and two daughters in Brimfield, Ohio.

            The Writers in Person Series is sponsored by the Language, Literature and Arts Department with a grant from the Jackson Community College Foundation.  It is designed to give students a first-hand look at writers working in the field today.  The public is welcome.

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