Margo Steines (she/her)

Aidan Avery

Margo Steines is a writer, a born and raised New Yorker, a journeyman ironworker, and parent to a small person. She is a creative coach and the author of the memoir in essays "Brutalities: A Love Story." Steines holds an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Arizona and lives and writes in Tucson. Her work was named Notable in Best American Essays and has appeared in The Sun, Slate, The Guardian, Air Mail, Brevity, Off Assignment, and The New York Times (Modern Love).

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Awards: Kirkus Star (NOT Kirkus Prize, for clarity!)

Communities: Arizona Author, Tucsonan, LGBTQ+, Person with a Disability

Workshop: Writing Nonfiction Scenes

This workshop will offer a high-level introduction to the use of scenes in creative nonfiction. Together, we’ll enact sample scenes to experience what dialogue sounds like read aloud and what narrated movements look like in real time and space.

Integrated Learning Center Room 119 (Seats 60)  
Sat, Mar 14, 11:30 am - 12:25 pm
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Signing area: No Signing for this Panel (following presentation)

Panelist: Margo Steines
Moderator: Matthew Landon
Sponsor: Session made possible courtesy of Tucson Sentinel

Book:

Brutalities: A Love Story

A Love Story
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
W. W. Norton, Incorporated
October 2023
ISBN 9781324050872
288 pages
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