Lilly Dancyger is the author of First Love: Essays on Friendship, and Negative Space. Her work has been published by the New York Times, The Atlantic, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Guernica, Literary Hub, and more. Dancyger is the recipient of the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award, the Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from Sewanee, the Indiana Review Creative Nonfiction Prize, and an Artist Fellowship in nonfiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She lives in New York City and teaches at the Randolph College low-residency MFA program. At the Library, Dancyger will work on a book-length three-part essay about ballet as an artform and a physical practice, chronic pain, and the mind/body connection.
Join Lilly on September 24, from 19 h 30 – 20 h 30 CET for her event, Lessons in Looking.
Lessons in Looking is craft talk on how visual art can deepen and expand a writer’s practice. From the way portraiture reveals character to how sketching can inspire more playful drafting, this interactive lecture will explore the parallels between painting and prose.
Learn more and register for the in-person event HERE.