Lana Helm elected to Board of Directors for Louisville Literary Arts

Lana Helm elected to Board of Directors for Louisville Literary Arts

Lana Dean Helm

This summer, Lana Helm, Senior Lecturer in our Composition Department, was nominated and elected to the Board of Directors for Louisville Literary Arts, a nonprofit literary center that serves local, regional, and national readers and writers through writing classes, literary events, and professional development. She serves on the Finance/Fundraising, Governance & Nominating, and Writers' Block Committees within the board.

She will also be a featured reader at the December 2021 Louisville Literary Arts InKy Reading Series. She will present a new collection of poems entitled, "The Heart Will Tell You When." The reading is FREE to attend virtually via the Louisville Literary Arts webpage or social media links.

For more information on Louisville Literary Arts, go to https://www.louisvilleliteraryarts.org.

Lana Dean Helm is a poet, open mic emcee, piano teacher, dog-sitter, and professional cosplayer, splitting her teaching time between UofL and Ivy Tech Community College. She writes about octopuses and other fascinations of the natural world. Lana enjoys traveling, live music, and collecting old typewriters.