author of The Steps We Take
October 21, 11:00am
Ellen Ann Fentress makes her debut at the symposium with her first essay collection, The Steps We Take: A Memoir of Southern Reckoning. She teaches Creative Nonfiction in The W’s low-res MFA program and is a long-time Jackson, Mississippi resident. She produced the documentary Eyes on Mississippi and launched The Academy Stories, a website chronicling segregation academies.
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