Writers in Conversations is a regular event featuring two writers discussing the joys and travails of their writing journeys. Moderated by creative writing professor Nick Salestrom, the April conversation features guest writers, Maria Navos and Mary Pipher.
This is a free event with no registration required. Social Time begins at 6:00pm CST, and the conversation runs from 6:30 – 7:30pm. Please join us. www.larksongwritersplace.org
Maria Nazos is a Greek-American poet, translator, and memoirist raised in Athens, Greece, and Joliet, Illinois. She has won numerous awards for her poetry, including an Academy of American Poets Award and a 2022 Palette Poetry Contest winners. Her poetry, translations, and essays are published in The New Yorker, Copper Nickel, and elsewhere. She is the author of “PULSE” (Omnidawn 2026) and the translator of “A Slow Horizon that Breathes” (World Poetry Books, 202)3, a collection of poems from Greek poet Dimitra Kotoula.
Mary Pipher is the author of 11 books, 4 New York Times bestsellers including Reviving Ophelia and Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age. Her latest book is A Life in Light, memoir in essays reflecting on radiance, resilience, and the constantly changing nature of reality. Mary earned a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska in Clinical Psychology. She has received two American Psychological Association Presidential Citations, one of which she returned to protest psychologists’ involvement in enhanced interrogations at Guantánamo and other black sites.
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