November 11, 2011, Friday - Mentor Series Reading: Dinty Moore with Rebecca Dosch Brown and Diana Xin at The Loft

Time: 7:00pm

Location:  The Loft, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Mentor Series Reading: Dinty Moore with Rebecca Dosch Brown and Diana Xin

The Loft Mentor Series in Poetry and Creative Prose presents nonfiction mentor Dinty Moore reading with program participants Rebecca Dosch Brown (poetry) and Diana Xin (fiction).

Dinty W. Moore lives in Athens, Ohio, where he directs Ohio University’s BA, MFA and PhD programs in creative writing. His books include the memoir Between Panic and Desire, The Accidental Buddhist, Toothpick Men, The Emperor’s Virtual Clothes and the writing guides The Truth of the Matter: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction and Crafting the Personal Essay: A Guide for Writing and Publishing Creative Nonfiction. He edits the internet journal Brevity and serves on the editorial board of Creative Nonfiction and is coordinating editor for W.W. Norton’s Best Creative Nonfiction.

Rebecca Dosch Brown (poetry) lives in media res in Northeast Minneapolis with her husband, an electronic composer, and their bright son, whose name means ‘sun’ in Japanese. She has been a teacher of creative writing, EFL and cultural awareness, and she has also enjoyed stints as a gardener, translator, editor and an apprentice in modern bonsai and tile-making. She has published poems, translations and prose in publications such as Kyoto Journal, Briar Cliff Review, Shi to Shisou and mnartists.org.

Diana Xin (fiction) moved from China to Minnesota when she was three, but spent the past year back in Beijing. She holds bachelor's degrees in journalism and creative writing from Northwestern University. Her writing has been published in the Alaska Quarterly Review, and she was recipient of Northwestern University's 2008 Tri Quarterly Prize in Fiction. She enjoys yoga, traveling and eating good food. Literary Punch Card eligible.