Another Reading!

Reading at Rhodes College
The Departments of Psychology and English
&
The Women’s Studies Program
present
Laura Flynn

Reading from her memoir, Swallow the Ocean
Thursday February 21, 7:00 pm
Tuthill Performance Hall
Hassell Hall - Rhodes College

Laura Flynn was born and raised in San Francisco, California. She is the author of Swallow the Ocean (Counterpoint Press)––a memoir of growing up in the face of her mother’s catastrophic mental illness.

She received her BA from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut and her MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota, where she served as the inaugural fellow in the Scribe for Human Rights Project, jointly sponsored by the Human Rights and the Creative Writing Programs at the University of Minnesota. She has been an activist and human rights advocate all her adult life. She lived in Haiti from 1994-2000 and remains deeply involved in the struggle for democracy and human dignity in that country. She is the editor of Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalization by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Common Courage Press, 2000.

She currently teaches editing at the University of Minnesota, and lives in Minneapolis with her husband, poet Mike Rollin.