Brown Bag Biography with T Kira Māhealani Madden

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The Center for Biographical Research presents: /“Feeding the Lake” / T Kira Māhealani Madden, Distinguished Writer in Residence, Department of English, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa / On creative community, artistic lineage, and building stories in times of uncertainty and doubt. This talk might be for you if you’ve found yourself asking: why make things at all? / T Kira Māhealani Madden is a writer, photographer, and amateur magician. She is the Founding Editor of No Tokens, a magazine of literature and art, and her debut memoir, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, was a New York Times Editors' Choice selection, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and a finalist for the LAMBDA Literary Award for lesbian memoir. Her debut novel, Whidbey, is forthcoming with Mariner, HarperCollins. / Cosponsored by Hamilton Library, the Center for Oral History, Conflict and Peace Specialist, and the Departments of American Studies, English, Ethnic Studies, History, and Political Science / Thursday, February 22 / Kuykendall 410 / 12PM to 1:15PM HST

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