Virtual AWP returns with a special reading and conversation with the 2021 Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction winner Anne-Marie Oomen, in conversation with Jason Gray, associate editor of The Writer’s Chronicle. Hear Anne-Marie read selections from different chapters from her winning publication As Long as I Know You: The Mom Book (University of Georgia Press) and later discuss her writing and publication process, grief, and memory.

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Participant Bio:

Anne-Marie Oomen was awarded AWP’s Sue William Silverman nonfiction award for As Long as I Know You: The Mom Book (University of Georgia Press). She edited ELEMENTAL: A Collection of Michigan Nonfiction, authored The Lake Michigan Mermaid, (with Linda Nemec Foster), Pulling Down the Barn, House of Fields (all Michigan Notable Books),  American Map: Essays,  Uncoded Woman (poetry), and Love, Sex and 4-H (Next Generation Indie Award for Memoir). Forthcoming, The Long Road (Cornerstone Press). She has written seven plays, including the award-winning Secrets of Luuce Talk Tavern. She teaches poetry and nonfiction at Solstice MFA at Lasell University (MA) and Interlochen College of Creative Arts. Visit her at www.anne-marieoomen.com