Marilyn Abildskov - “Leap: Imagination in Nonfiction”
In this presentation Marilyn Abildskov suggests ways to deal with the unease of crafting personal stories into memoirs. Abildskov advises how to write with "narrative intelligence:" the distance necessary to find the "story underneath the story." Abildskov also offers examples of memoirs that she believes successfully combine careful prose and refined ideas.
Marilyn Abildskov earned her M.F.A. from The University of Iowa. Her short stories, literary essays, and poems have appeared in magazines including Quarterly West, Bellingham Review, and Southern Review. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writer's Award, three Pushcart Prize nominations, and two Yaddo residencies. Kirkus Reviews calls her memoir, The Men in My Country, set in Japan, one of those travel stories "that reveals a heart as smitten with the place as the people." She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and teaches in the M.F.A. program at Saint Mary's College of California.
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July 02, 2007
Nonfiction | Summer Writing Festival
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