At Home With Literati: James Tate Hill and M. Leona Godin
Tue, Sep 07
|Virtual Event
At Home with Literati Series in support of Blind Man's Bluff. He'll be joined in conversation by M. Leona Godin.
Time & Location
Sep 07, 2021, 7:00 PM
Virtual Event
About the Event
We're pleased to welcome James Tate Hill to our At Home with Literati Series in support of Blind Man's Bluff. He'll be joined in conversation by M. Leona Godin.
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James Tate Hill is an editor for Monkeybicycle and contributing editor at Literary Hub, where he writes a monthly audiobooks column. The Best American Essays has chosen two of his works as "Notable," and he won the Nilsen Literary Prize for a First Novel for Academy Gothic. Born in West Virginia, he lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.
M. Leona Godin is a writer, performer, and educator who is blind. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times; Playboy; O, The Oprah Magazine; and Catapult, where she writes the column, “A Blind Writer’s Notebook.” She was a 2019 Logan Nonfiction Fellow and has written and produced two theatrical productions: The Star of Happiness, based on Helen Keller’s time performing on vaudeville, and The Spectator & the Blind Man, about the invention of Braille. She founded the online magazine Aromatica Poetica as a venue for exploring the arts and sciences of smell and taste; not specifically for, but welcoming to, blind readers and writers. She holds a PhD in English Literature from NYU and has lectured on art, accessibility, disability, and technology at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering, Rice University, and the American Printing House for the Blind, among other venues.