Reinhardt's MFA Summer Reading Series: Valerie Boyd

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Valerie Boyd, June 25, 7:30-9 p.m., Hill Freeman Library & Spruill Learning Center

“Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston” is a critically acclaimed biography written by Boyd. The book, which discusses the life of the “Their Eyes Were Watching God” author, has won the Southern Book Award and the American Library Association’s Notable Book Award. She is currently putting together a collection of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alice Walker’s personal journals, which will be published as “Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker in 2018.” 

Boyd is a professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Georgia, where she is the founder and director of their new low-residency MFA Program in Narrative Nonfiction. She has worked as the arts editor at “The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,” and written articles for “The Washington Post,” “The Los Angeles Times,” “Creative Nonfiction,” “The Oxford American,” “Paste,” “Ms. Essence” and “Atlanta Magazine.”