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Author: Elaine Neil Orr
Date/Time: Tuesday 03/11/2025 at 11:00 AM
Book: Dancing Woman
Synopsis: Award-winning North Carolina author and professor Elaine Neil Orr gives us an indelible portrait of a young female artist in 1960s Nigeria, torn between two men and two cultures, struggling to find her passion and her purpose. An American citizen born and raised in Nigeria to expat parents, Elaine is a professor and writer (now based in Raleigh, NC) whose work is grounded in the American South and Nigerian South – her two homes. Her shorter works have been widely published, are frequently anthologized, winning prizes from the North Carolina Literary Review and Appalachian Review. She is the author of five books of fiction, memoir, and literary criticism including "Swimming Between Worlds," which was a finalist for the Phillip H. McMath prize. Orr has won grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the North Carolina Arts Council, been honored by the Raleigh Fine Arts Society, and she is a frequent Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. In addition, she has been writer in residence at University of Rhode Island, the University of the Cumberlands, Randolph College, and Wesleyan College. She is an award-winning professor of English at N.C. State University, where she won the Alumni Outstanding Research Award in 2019 for her cumulative body of published work and her mentoring of younger faculty. She also teaches in the Naslund-Mann Brief Residency MFA in Writing Program at Spalding University in Louisville.
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