Face blindness. Schizophrenia. Women reduced to "crazy chick" or "madwoman." Without a doubt, mental health diagnoses carry challenges and social stigmas. Join these authors as they explore family histories of mental illness and medical diagnoses, as well as their own personal battles.
| Where: | Koffler Room 218 (Seats 142, Wheelchair accessible)    |
| When: | Sat, Mar 15, 4:00 pm - 4:55 pm |
| Signing area: | UA Campus Store Book Sales (Mall) (following presentation)
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| Genre: | Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction |
| Moderator: | Kristine Welter Hall |
| Sponsor: | Session made possible courtesy of Visit Tucson |
Sadie Dingfelder is a freelance science journalist. Her writing has appeared in National Geographic, the Washington Post and Washingtonian magazine. A former staff reporter at the Washington Post Express, Dingfelder served as senior science writer at the Monitor on Psychology magazine, covering new findings in neuroscience, cognitive science, and ethology for members of the American Psychological Association....
The author of "No One Gets to Fall Apart," Sarah LaBrie is a Texas writer whose libretti have been performed at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Her fiction appears in Guernica, The Literary Review and the Los Angeles Review of Books....
Suzanne Scanlon's memoir, "Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen," is her most recent work. She is also the author of two novels: "Her 37th Year, An Index," and "Promising Young Women." Some places her work has appeared include: Granta, The Guardian, The Believer, BOMB, The Iowa Review, Electric Literature, Fence, Harper's Bazaar and Literary Hub....
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