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WRITING CONFERENCE

Patricia Hampl’s most recent book is The Art of the Wasted Day. Other books include the memoirs The Florist’s Daughter, Virgin Time, A Romantic Education, and Blue Arabesque. Four of her books have been named New York Times “100 Notable Books of the Year.” I Could Tell You Stories was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction. She is also the author of two collections of poetry. Her essays, poems, short fiction, travel pieces and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, Paris Review, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays and others. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts (in poetry and in prose). In 1990 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She is newly retired as Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota, and remains a member of the permanent faculty of the Prague Summer Writing Program