Two Recommended Women Writers, But You’ll Have to Choose

Rockville will be so literary on Wednesday November 4, 2009. Two different opportunities feature women with far-reaching experiences. Delve into a new world with one of these invitations.Professor >Monica Parrish Trent of Montgomery College sent along this announcement for DC author Marita Golden, who will hold a lecture and book signing at Montgomery College Rockville at 6:30 PM in the Theatre Arts Arena:

Golden’s talk, which is based on writers and their authority to speak, will cover her experiences and expertise as a novelist, nonfiction writer, creative writing teacher and her recent trip to Israel as a Fulbright Scholar. This event is free and open to the public.

Her novel “AFTER” won the 2007 Fiction Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association the 2008 Maryland Author Award from the Association of Maryland Librarians. Her other fiction includes “Long Distance Life”, “AWoman’s Place,” “And Do Remember Me,” and “The Edge of Heaven.” In the genre of nonfiction, Golden has edited three anthologies, most recently “Black Writers on Soul Mates Family and Friends.” As a memoirist and essayist, Golden has authored “Migrations of the Heart, Saving Our Sons: Raising Black Children in a Turbulent World,” and “A Miracle Everyday: Triumph and Transformation in the Lives of Single Mothers.”

Currently, Golden, born in Washington, D.C., serves as writer-in-residence at the University of the District of Columbia. She founded and served as the first president of the Washington, D.C.-based African American Writers Guild. In 1990 she co-founded the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, which presents the nation’s only national fiction award for college writers of African descent and an annual summer writer’s workshop for black writers. She now serves as president emeritus of the organization.

For more information about this event, please contact Professor Monica Parrish Trent at 240-567-7976 or e-mail [email protected].

Local poetry musician, Uli Zislin, also sent along an invitation for the same evening, Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 7:30 PM at the Rockville Library to hear Washington poet, Marina Tyurina Oberlander, who he describes as a writer, poet, translator and philologist. She recently had a big performance in Moscow and will be reading at Pushkin’s House in London next month. We’re lucky to have her here in Rockville now.

Washington poet and translator of Scandinavian and English poetry Marina Tyurina Oberlander will read poetry from her Book of Poetry, Na Ostrom Rubezhe Prostranstva (On the Sharp Edge of Space) from Vodoley Publishers, Moscow, 2008. The book is published with the support of the distinguished Russian literary contemporary, Eugene Witkowsky and is available at the Russian book store, Russia on Line, 301/933-0607.

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