author of Nola Face
October 25, 9:00 a.m.
Brooke Champagne is a New Orleans native who makes her debut appearance at the symposium with her essay collection Nola Face: A Latina’s Life in the Big Easy, which the Southern Review of Books has called “a bold and ‘buggy’ debut that “parades through the multiple masks she and her city of New Orleans wear, while tossing her insights and insecurities at readers like so many trinkets.”
Champagne teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Alabama. Her creative nonfiction essays and craft essays have appeared widely in literary magazines, and Nola Face was selected silver medalist by the Independent Publisher Book Awards in Southern Nonfiction.
