CANCELED: Acclaimed Genre-Spanning Writer Elizabeth Hand to Give Reading at Bard College on April 22

Novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Hand will read from new work at Bard College on Monday, April 22, at 4 pm in Weis Cinema, located in the Bertelsmann Campus Center. Hand is the author of more than 20 genre-spanning, award-winning novels and collections of short fiction. Her most recent novel, A Haunting on the Hill, is an homage to Shirley Jackson’s classic The Haunting of Hill House and was commissioned by Jackson’s family. “Hand has a gift for the sensuous, evocative detail, and her descriptions are often simultaneously seductive and spooky,” writes The New Yorker. The reading, which is being presented as part of Bradford Morrow’s course on innovative contemporary fiction, is free and open to the public. 

A longtime critic and reviewer, Hand’s writing has also appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times, Boston Review, Salon, the Los Angeles Times, and the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, among other outlets. Her noir novels featuring post-punk photographer and provocateur Cass Neary have been translated into myriad languages and are being developed for a TV series. Hand has been an instructor at writing workshops across the US and abroad, including Oxford and Pakistan, and is on the faculty at the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing. She divides her time between the Maine coast and North London, and is at work on Unspeakable Things, which is loosely inspired by Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca.

Post Date: 04-02-2024