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Books & WritingAge Group:
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Event Details
For the Love of Life:
Non-fiction Writing Workshop
with Ellen Graf
Join me for four one-hour sessions of writing from life.
Ellen Graf is a writer, sculptor, and master mask maker living in upstate NY with her
husband, artist Zhong-hua Lu. Ellen is the author of The Natural Laws of Good Luck,
Shambhala Publications, and has a Masters in non-fiction from Bennington College. Her
essays and poems have appeared in The New York Times and numerous literary
magazines online and in print. Most recently, the essay “A Line of Immeasurable
Length,” published in Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose, was included on Best
American Essays of 2022 Notable Essays list. Ellen is the recipient of a New York
Foundation for the Arts fellowship in non-fiction in 2018 a Rona Jaffe finalist in 2011,
and 2023 NYSCA grants for writing and sculpture.
This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.