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Spring 2019

 

  

 

Katy Simpson Smith – February 7th, 2019 (IC 101, 7:00 pm)

 

Katy Simpson Smith was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. She attended Mount Holyoke College and received a PhD in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She is the author of We Have Raised All of You: Motherhood in the South, 1750-1835, and the novels The Story of Land and Sea and Free Men. Her writing has also appeared in The Oxford American,GrantaLiterary HubGarden & GunCatapult, and Lenny. She lives in New Orleans. She is currently serving as the Eudora Welty Chair of Southern Literature at Millsaps College.

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