Iowa Summer Writing Festival instructor Tim Bascom will read from his newest book, Continental Drift, and will be joined in conversation with Iowa Writers' Workshop alum and former Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program professor, Patricia Foster. The Mainstreet Rag online bookstore describes Continental Drift as a book of "characters [who] are challenged, sometimes deeply disturbed, but always brought to see the world anew. Their stories reflect the tangle of cross-cultural interactions that take place every day as real travelers from real places try to connect despite all the differences that so easily divide" (mainstreetragbookstore.com). Catherine Browder, prize-winning author of The Manning Girl, praises Bascom as "[having] a special gift for the pivotal encounter—the quietly unsettling, the bittersweet, even the explosive" (timbascom.com).
Tim Bascom is the author of a novel, two collections of essays, and two prize-winning memoirs about years spent in East Africa as a youth: Chameleon Days and Running to the Fire. His essays have been selected for the anthologies Best Creative Nonfiction and Best American Travel Writing, receiving editor prizes from The Missouri Review and Florida Review. His short fiction has appeared in journals such as Zone 3, Front Range Review, and Flint Hills Review. Bascom received his MFA from the University of Iowa and taught creative writing for 20 years at the college level. He currently directs the Kansas Book Festival (iowasummerwritingfestival.uiowa.edu).
Patricia Foster is the author of All the Lost Girls (PEN Award), Just beneath My Skin, Girl from Soldier Creek (SFA Novel Award), Written in the Sky: Lessons of a Southern Daughter (Hall-Waters Prize for Distinguished Southern Writing), and a forthcoming memoir, The New World. She is the editor of four anthologies, including Minding the Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul. She has received a Pushcart Prize, a Clarence Cason Award, a Theodore Hoepfner Award, a Dean’s Scholar Award, a Florida Arts Council Award, a Yaddo Fellowship, and a Carl Klaus Teaching Award, and was a juror for the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in Nonfiction (Yale University). She graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was a professor in the MFA Program in Nonfiction at the University of Iowa for over 25 years. She has also taught writing in France, Australia, Italy, the Czech Republic, and Spain (iowasummerwritingfestival.uiowa.edu).
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