Christine Hemp and Sands Hall

Local poet and nonfiction writer Christine Hemp teams up with her colleague from the Iowa Summer Writing Festival Sands Hall on Thursday, March 25th at 7 p.m. at the Northwind Gallery. Both writers are also musicians and it looks as if there will be some lyrical collaboration in store for their evening of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Christine Hemp has been awarded a Washington State Artist Trust Fellowship in Literature, a Barbara Deming/Money for Women grant, the Donald Murray Award at UC Davis, a residency at Vermont Studio Center, an Iowa Award for Literary Non-Fiction, and the Conway Award for Teaching Writing at Harvard University Extension. Her work has been published in The Iowa Review, Harvard Magazine, Boston Globe, Yale Anglers Journal, and American Falconry. Her art writing has appeared in Art & Auction, American Craft, and THE: Santa Fes Monthly Magazine of the Arts. Hemp, reading her poems and essays, has been featured on NPRs Morning Edition. She served as poet-in-residence at three of our National Parks, and her work is now available in the cosmos since a poem of hers blasted off on a 1998 NASA mission to monitor pre-natal activity of stars. She teaches locally as well as at the University of Iowa Summer Writing Festival.

Sands Hall is the author of the novel Catching Heaven, a Random House Readers Circle selection, as well as a book of essays and exercises, Tools of the Writers Craft. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the Iowa Review, the Green Mountains Review and Tahoe Quarterly, among others. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, Sands holds a second MFA in Theatre Arts. Her work as a playwright includes an adaptation of Alcotts Little Women, which has received productions around the country, and her comic/drama Fair Use explores issues of copyright and ownership while examining the controversy surrounding Wallace Stegners use of the life and writings of Mary Hallock Foote to create his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Angle of Repose. Sands is also an actor, director, and musician; this summer she is directing The Fantasticks for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival in Boulder. She is currently Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

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