Creative Nonfiction in Conversation: Eula Biss and Saeed Jones In-Person
Join authors Eula Biss and Saeed Jones for a conversation about their work and the power of creative nonfiction to improve health and change the way we think about ourselves, each other and the systems of power we all attempt to navigate daily. Both authors will read from new and recent work.
This event is open to the public. The event is organized by the Master of Science in Media, Medicine, and Health program with support from the Countway Library and funding from the Harvard Arts and Humanities Initiative.
Saeed Jones is the 2024-2025 artist-in-residence in the department of Global Health and Social Medicine. He is is the author of the memoir How We Fight for Our Lives (Simon & Schuster), winner of the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction and the poetry collection Prelude to Bruise (Coffee House Books), winner for the 2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. His poetry and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times, Oxford American and GQ among other publications. His book Alive at the End of the World (Coffee House Press) won the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry. His next book Home Out Here, a memoir, is forthcoming from Washington Square Press.
Eula Biss is the author of four books: Having and Being Had (2020), On Immunity (2014), Notes from No Man’s Land (2009), and The Balloonists (2002). Her work has been translated into a dozen languages and has been recognized by a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a New America Fellowship, and a 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library. She is currently at work on a collection of essays about how private property has shaped our world.
For the past twenty years, Biss has taught writing in large lecture halls and small community bookstores, at public elementary schools and private universities. She developed a commitment to progressive education at Hampshire College before earning an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. She lives a mile from Lake Michigan, where she swims in sun and shadow.
