Please join us
April 14th at 7:30pm
in Reisinger Concert Hall

The Event

Sadie Lou will be hosting a Student and Alumnae/i Reading from 7:30-9pm on Monday, April 14th, 2008 in Reisinger Concert Hall. All members of the community are welcome! Pairs comprised of one undergraduate and one alum will read pieces of their own writing, one in response to or inspired by the other. A reception will follow, featuring the visual artwork of staff members and contributing artists.

Alumnae/i Guests

Eireann Corrigan

After graduating from Sarah Lawrence in 1999, Eireann Corrigan went on to get her master’s degree in Creative Writing from NYU. Her graduate thesis became her first book, You Remind Me of You. She has since published two other novels, Splintering and Ordinary Ghosts. Her fourth book is due to be released in September, 2009. Now a teacher as well as an author, Eireann counts her time at Sarah Lawrence as transformative. Because of that, she harangues her best and brightest high school students into applying.

Suzanne Gray

Suzanne Gray earned an MFA in writing from Sarah Lawrence in 2004. Most of the writing she does these days is for her job as the editor of the Sarah Lawrence alumnae/i magazine; the upcoming issue includes a piece about the economics of global warming and one on African currency. She had a short story published in an anthology last year, but she’s kind of embarrassed about it now and so isn’t going to tell you the name of the book. One of these days she will start writing a novel.

Suzanne Guillette

Suzanne Guillette is a writer, teacher, and editor. An occasional performer with SpeakyEasy: Stories from the Back Room, Suzanne holds a Bachelor’s in Philosophy and a Master’s of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction. As a volunteer facilitator for the New York Writer’s Coalition, Suzanne leads a weekly writing workshop for formerly incarcerated women in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Her first book, Much to Your Chagrin, is forthcoming from Atria.

Liz Irmiter

Liz Irmiter’s work has appeared in several journals, including The Greensboro Review, Lumina and Animus. She attended Sarah Lawrence College, where she received her MFA in poetry, in addition to founding the SLC Poetry Festival. She is currently the director of Special Programs for SLC and lives in Manhattan.

Chris Prentice

Chris Prentice has spent the last 14 years as an arts administrator, grantmaker, performer, educator, and writer living in NYC. She is the co-creator of the fictional Organization for Better Underground Living (OBUL) and the author of its Singles’ Car Initiative. Critical of literary journals and print media waste, Chris is beginning to self-publish in/on everyday-alternative media, starting with her project, Eggs for the Liberation of Poetry (ELP!), this spring. Currently she makes her money in the field new product design and as adjunct faculty in the Communication Design & Technology MFA program at Parsons School of Design.

Nelly Reifler

Nelly Reifler is the author of See Through, a collection of stories published by Simon and Schuster. Her fiction has been published by magazines and journals such as McSweeney’s, Black Book, Bomb, The Land Grant College Review and Jubilat. Her work has been translated into Japanese, Italian and Dutch. She will have an essay about the writing of her father, Samuel Reifler, in the next issue of Post Road. She has a regular column on religious faith—or lack thereof—on the website www.nextbook.org.

Nelly graduated from the Sarah Lawrence MFA program in 1996. While she was a student at SLC, she received a Henfield Prize for her story “The Splinter,” which she wrote as a member of Joan Silber’s workshop. She was also lucky enough to work as the assistant to Jerome Badanes, the late director of the writing program. Now a teacher at Sarah Lawrence, Nelly is deeply honored to have as colleagues four of her former professors.

Estha Weiner

Estha Weiner is co-editor and contributor to Blues For Bill: A Tribute To William Matthews, (Akron Poetry Series, 2005 ), and author of The Mistress Manuscript (Rivendell Press, forthcoming), and Transfiguration Begins At Home (Tiger Bark Press, forthcoming). Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including The New Republic and Barrow Street. She is a 2005 winner of a Paterson Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for “Discovery/The Nation” Prize. Estha is founder and director of The NY Writers’ Nights Series for Sarah Lawrence College, Marymount Writers Nights, and a Speaker on Shakespeare for The New York Council For The Humanities. She is Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at City College of NY, and serves or has served on the Poetry/Writing faculties of The Frost Place, The Hudson Valley Writers Center, Stonecoast Writers Conference, Poets and Writers, Poets House, as well as The Writer’s Voice. She also serves on the Advisory Board of Slapering Hol Press, Hudson Valley Writers Center. In her previous life , Estha was an actor and worked for BBC radio.