Presented By: Zell Visiting Writers Series
Reading and Q&A with Danielle Evans
Zell Visiting Writers Series
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Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.
Danielle Valore Evans is the author of the story collections The Office of Historical Corrections and Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self. Her first collection won the PEN American Robert W. Bingham Prize, the Hurston-Wright award for fiction, and the Paterson Prize for fiction; her second won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and The Bridge Book Award and was a finalist for The Aspen Prize, The Story Prize, and The LA Times Book prize. She is a 2024 USA Artists Fellow, a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts fellow, and the winner of New Literary Project Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Her stories have appeared in magazines including The Paris Review, A Public Space, American Short Fiction, and The Sewanee Review, and have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and New Stories From The South. She is an Associate Professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and earned her MFA from The University of Iowa.
Her work is interested in the gap between what happened and how people talk about it—what gets omitted or reframed, what depends on whose version of the story is centered, and how those gaps and omissions operate in the space of an individual life, in a family, and in a country. She is particularly interested in the question of performance: when the gulf between a character’s public self and private self is an act of conscious performance, what makes a character aware that a role or performance is being demanded of them, and how performance can be both an act of resistance and an act of acquiescence, sometimes at the same time.
For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.
U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.
Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.
Danielle Valore Evans is the author of the story collections The Office of Historical Corrections and Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self. Her first collection won the PEN American Robert W. Bingham Prize, the Hurston-Wright award for fiction, and the Paterson Prize for fiction; her second won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and The Bridge Book Award and was a finalist for The Aspen Prize, The Story Prize, and The LA Times Book prize. She is a 2024 USA Artists Fellow, a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts fellow, and the winner of New Literary Project Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Her stories have appeared in magazines including The Paris Review, A Public Space, American Short Fiction, and The Sewanee Review, and have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and New Stories From The South. She is an Associate Professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and earned her MFA from The University of Iowa.
Her work is interested in the gap between what happened and how people talk about it—what gets omitted or reframed, what depends on whose version of the story is centered, and how those gaps and omissions operate in the space of an individual life, in a family, and in a country. She is particularly interested in the question of performance: when the gulf between a character’s public self and private self is an act of conscious performance, what makes a character aware that a role or performance is being demanded of them, and how performance can be both an act of resistance and an act of acquiescence, sometimes at the same time.
For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.
U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.
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