Emily Fox Gordon
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To tell the truth, I find it hard to believe people when they claim to have a goal. Do they really want to become pharmacists, learn languages, play instruments, start small businesses? Privately, I suspect they’re being disingenuous, and what really want is to be surprised. 
Emily Fox Gordon “Book of Days”

Recent Readings, Talks, Panels and
​Awards  

Fall 2016: Reading from MOCKINGBIRD YEARS and onstage discussion with Dr. Andrew Gerber, medical director, Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA.

Summer 2016: Panel on Autobiographical Writing at Lone Star College Book Festival, Houston, with Rich Levy and Ann McCutchan.

Summer 2016: Reading at Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY.

Summer 2016: Talk at Chautauqua Institution: “Truth and Lies in Memoir.”

Spring 2016: Reading at Bohemio’s, Houston, with David Theis and Gardner Landry .

Fall 2015: “My Last Therapist” anthologized in Salmagundi Magazine: 50 Years, 1965 – 2015.

Spring 2015: Reading  and classroom Q&A at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg PA.

Spring 2015: AWP Panel:  “Other People’s Privacy,” with Marcia Aldrich, Debra Monroe, John T. Price and Robin Hemley.

Fall 2014: “At Sixty-Five” anthologized in BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS, John Jeremiah Sullivan, guest editor.

Fall 2014: McGinniss-Ritchie Award, from Southwest Review.

Spring 2014: Fellow in General Nonfiction, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Spring 2014: Reading, Queens College Low-Residency Program.

Spring 2014: AWP Panel: Telling It All: Boundaries in Creative Nonfiction, with Allen Gee, Ann McCutchan, Peter Selgin and Margaret MacInnis.

Spring 2014: Reading, Jung Center, Houston.
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Spring 2013: AWP Panel:  “The Godzilla of Nonfiction: Has Memoir Swallowed the Essay?” with Meghan Daum, Debra Monroe, David McGlynn and Madeleine Blais. 

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