Memoir Writing
Saturday, June 12, 2021
2:30pm - 3:30pm (Central)

   
Dr. Heidi Skurat Harris        Greg Graham
 

Develop your writing skills and learn more about the art of memoir writing from two professors with experience mentoring a wide variety of writers.

About the Presenters:

Greg Graham teaches memoir writing as a professor in the department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Graham also directs the Little Rock Writing Project, a regional network of pre-K through college teachers who have successfully completed intensive preparation in the teaching of writing. The network provides professional development workshops for teachers and outreach programs for children and young adults. He received a bachelor’s degree in communication from the University of Tennessee at Martin and a master’s degree in professional and technical writing from UA Little Rock.

Heidi Skurat Harris is an associate professor and graduate coordinator in the department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She has published parts of her longer memoir, "Buried in Polyester," in North Dakota Quarterly Review and Quarterly West, and her essay "Water Hazards" won the 1999 Intro Journals Award from the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP). She teaches nonfiction in addition to technical writing and online writing instruction.