Join us for two events featuring acclaimed author Eileen Pollack.
On October 18, at 4:10 p.m., in the Honors College Lounge, Pollack will discuss her acclaimed nonfiction book The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still A Boys’ Club on a panel about success for women in academia hosted by WiSTEM. The panel will allow women on the WSU faculty to speak about their experiences navigating and achieving success in the university environment.
On October 19, 2016 at 5:00 p.m. in the WSU Museum of Art, Pollack will read from her fiction and nonfiction at WSU Museum of Art. Attendees can listen to some of the best literary work produced today while browsing the lively exhibit at the Museum of Art, Northwest Alternative Comics. Q&A with the audience and book signing to follow.
Pollack is an award-winning fiction and nonfiction writer whose novel Breaking and Entering won the Grub Street National Book Prize and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice selection. She also is the author of the novels Paradise, New York and A Perfect Life, and two collections of short fiction. Her creative nonfiction includes Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and the celebrated book, The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still A Boys’ Club. She teaches in the Masters of Fine Arts Program at the University of Michigan.
This is a Common Reading event.
This event is co-sponsored by the School of Biological Sciences, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Office of the Provost, the English Department, and the Common Reading Program.
