Author Ananda Lima presents in MassArt's Creative Writing Reading Series

When:
Wednesday, Nov 06, 2024 6:00p -
7:30p

Where:
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
621 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115

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Admission:
FREE

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Event website:
https://calendar.massart.edu/event/ananda-lima-poet-fiction-writer-and-translator-in-the-creative-writing-reading-series

Ananda Lima

poet, fiction writer, translator, photographer

Weds., November 6, 6-7:30 p.m. 


Tower Rm 201, MassArt 

[Guests enter through Design and Media Center, 621 Huntington Ave, Boston]

 

Ananda Lima is a poet, fiction writer, and translator, the author of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil (Tor Books,2024) and Mother/land (Black Lawrence Press, 2021), winner of the Hudson Prize.  Her work has appeared in four chapbooks, including Amblyopia (Bull City Press), as well as publications such as The American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Lit Hub, Electric Literature, Poets.org, and elsewhere. She was awarded the inaugural WIP Fellowship by Latinx-in-Publishing, sponsored by Macmillan Publishers. Lima has served as a mentor at the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Immigrant Artist Program, and is a Contributing Editor at Poets & Writers and Program Curator at StoryStudio, Chicago. She has an MA in Linguistics from UCLA and an MFA in Creative Writing in Fiction from Rutgers University, Newark. She is the Fall 2024 Flagler Storytellers Author in Residence. Craft, her fiction debut, has received starred reviews from Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal, and The New York Times Review of Books describes it as “a remarkable debut that announces the arrival of a towering talent in speculative fiction.” Originally from Brazil, she lives in Chicago.

 

 Kelly Link describes Ananda Lima's debut fiction Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil 

as "absolutely thrilling!"


 


Check out MassArt's library research guide for the Creative Writing Reading Series 

https://massart.libguides.com/creativewriting

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