The Bismarck State College Visiting Writers Series hosts poet and educator Julie Gard for a reading of her work Monday, March 3.
Her public reading, audience Q&A and book signing begins at 7:30 p.m. in Basin Electric Auditorium (304) of BSC's National Energy Center of Excellence. Gard's March 2-4 residency includes presentations in English classes.
In addition, Gard is conducting a writers' workshop Sunday, March 2, at 3:30 p.m. in Room 116 of the BSC Library. Enrollment is limited and online preregistration is required at ndhumanities.org/spring-writers-workshops.html.
She graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Minnesota and spent a year in Russia as a Fulbright Graduate Fellow.
Gard was a member of the BSC English faculty from 2003-2007. She now lives in Duluth, Minn., and teaches as assistant professor of writing at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. Her prose poems and stories have appeared in more than 30 literary magazines and anthologies.
Publications include "Russia in 17 Objects" and "Obscura: The Daguerreotype Series," along with poetry and fiction in "The Prose Poem Project," "Gertrude," "Ekphrasis," "Clackamas Literary Review," "Crab Orchard Review," and "The MacGuffin Fiction Attic." Gard is online at juliegard.com.
Her appearance is sponsored by the English discipline of the Arts and Communication Department, with grant support from the Bismarck State College Foundation. Partial funding also comes from the North Dakota Humanities Council, a nonprofit, independent state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
About Bismarck State College
Bismarck State College, an innovative community college in Bismarck, N.D., offers high quality education, workforce training, and enrichment programs reaching local and global communities.
Her public reading, audience Q&A and book signing begins at 7:30 p.m. in Basin Electric Auditorium (304) of BSC's National Energy Center of Excellence. Gard's March 2-4 residency includes presentations in English classes.
In addition, Gard is conducting a writers' workshop Sunday, March 2, at 3:30 p.m. in Room 116 of the BSC Library. Enrollment is limited and online preregistration is required at ndhumanities.org/spring-writers-workshops.html.
She graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Minnesota and spent a year in Russia as a Fulbright Graduate Fellow.
Gard was a member of the BSC English faculty from 2003-2007. She now lives in Duluth, Minn., and teaches as assistant professor of writing at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. Her prose poems and stories have appeared in more than 30 literary magazines and anthologies.
Publications include "Russia in 17 Objects" and "Obscura: The Daguerreotype Series," along with poetry and fiction in "The Prose Poem Project," "Gertrude," "Ekphrasis," "Clackamas Literary Review," "Crab Orchard Review," and "The MacGuffin Fiction Attic." Gard is online at juliegard.com.
Her appearance is sponsored by the English discipline of the Arts and Communication Department, with grant support from the Bismarck State College Foundation. Partial funding also comes from the North Dakota Humanities Council, a nonprofit, independent state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
About Bismarck State College
Bismarck State College, an innovative community college in Bismarck, N.D., offers high quality education, workforce training, and enrichment programs reaching local and global communities.