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Share thisLocal Author Susan Gilbert-Collins Discusses 'The Creative Process' Nov. 16
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Established and aspiring writers, take note: Local author Susan Gilbert-Collins – whose short story Anxious was nominated for a Pushcart Prize – will visit Roberts Wesleyan College on Wednesday, Nov. 16, to talk about “Surviving (and Thriving) in the Creative Process.”
Her appearance, part of the Roberts Cultural Enrichment Committee’s fall semester lecture series, begins at 4 p.m. in the Merlin G. Smith Science Center Auditorium, on the Roberts campus. This event is free and open to the public.
Gilbert-Collins emerged as a novelist with Starting from Scratch, published by Touchstone, a division of Simon & Schuster, in August 2010. Anxious also was published last year, by Prairie Schooner.
Called “warm, witty, and redemptive,” by Susan Rebecca White, author of A Soft Place to Land, Starting from Scratch explores the way family dynamics color one’s experience of the world after the heart-rending loss of a loved one – and the powerful healing process than can come from cooking from scratch.
Sally Koslow, author of Little Pink Slips and Friends Like These, says of Gilbert-Collins’ inaugural novel: “Take one part Jane Hamilton, one part Julie Powell, season liberally with originality, and you have Starting from Scratch …” Koslow calls it a “tender, humorous debut.”
“This is an opportunity to converse with a local writer published by a major publisher,” said Tim Vande Brake, professor of English at Roberts and the host for Gilbert-Collins’ visit. “In her talk she will help us to reflect on our creative processes and to see our own projects through.”
Gilbert-Collins studied English at Oberlin College and holds a Master of Arts degree in English as a Second Language from the University of Minnesota. She lives in Rochester with her husband and two sons.
About Roberts Wesleyan College
With an enrollment of nearly 2,000 students and a tradition of excellence since 1866, Roberts Wesleyan College is a leader among liberal arts colleges with a Christian worldview. The College offers more than 50 undergraduate programs, as well as graduate programs in education, school psychology, school counseling, health administration, health information administration, nursing education, nursing leadership and administration, social work, music education, strategic marketing, and strategic leadership. Roberts Wesleyan also offers innovative undergraduate degree-completion programs for working adults in health administration, nursing, organizational management, and teacher education.
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