Libby Falk Jones

Women Writing in Berea:  Exploring Inner and Outer Voices

3:30 p.m.
Session 2

After panelists each share a short passage of spiritual autobiography, they will lead participants in a writing exercise drawing on inner and outer voices. Participants will discuss their writings in small groups. Panelists will provide materials for continued explorations.

Libby Falk Jones, professor of English at Berea College, teaches courses in creative, academic, and professional writing. Her poems and essays have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Low Explosions: Writings on the Body, New Growth: Recent Kentucky Writings, Connecticut Review, Poetry as Prayer: Appalachian Women Speak, I To I: Life Writing by Kentucky Feminists, and the Alhambra Poetry Calendar 2008. She has co-edited a collection of writings on women’s utopian fictions (Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative) and is currently working on two collections of poems.