Writers in Residence: Virtual Reading Series

Join the Program in Creative Writing for our virtual, at-home reading series: Writers in Residence. The recording will remain on the channel for viewing after the livestream. Check back for weekly live content as well as more reading videos from faculty, students, and alumni. Students interested in submitting content can visit creativewriting.uchicago.edu for more info.

Dina Peone studied writing at Sarah Lawrence before earning her MFA in nonfiction at the University of Iowa. Upon completion of her MFA, she joined UIowa as a Visiting Assistant Professor, where she now teaches their first-ever online course in creative nonfiction. Dina has received numerous awards for her teaching and writing, including an Outstanding Teaching Award, The Lucy Grealy Prize for Poetry, and a Pushcart Prize nomination for a personal essay about Freddy Krueger. She is the founding editor of the Cliffhanger., a pocket-sized anthology devoted to the fragment, and an editorial assistant for The Iowa Review. Her most recent essay appears in DINE, an anthology about roadside diners from Hippocampus Magazine and Books. Dina is at work on her first book, a memoir about burning almost to death in a house fire when she was a morbid teenager. She is the Summer 2020 Writer-in-Residence at the Jack Kerouac House in Orlando, Florida.

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