MEDIA ADVISORY
For Immediate Release
December 2, 2010 For information, call Jean Ann May or Paul DeZarn,
St. Raphael, 502/456-1541
(Louisville, Ky.) Sallie Bingham, award-winning poet and author, will be reading to seventh-graders at St. Raphael School (2141 Lancashire Avenue) on Wednesday, December 8, as part of the school’s volunteer guest reader program. Readings will take place from 9:30-10 a.m. and from 10:15-10:45 a.m.
A native of Louisville, Ms. Bingham graduated from Radcliffe College and currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is the founder of the Kentucky Foundation for Women and the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture at Duke University.
Sallie Bingham published her first novel in 1961. Since then she has published several collections of short stories, novels, plays, collections of poetry and a memoir. Her stories have been published in Mademoiselle, The Atlantic Monthly, Redbook and many other periodicals and have been included in more than 15 collections, including Best American Short Stories and the O’Henry Awards. She was book editor for The Courier-Journal in Louisville and has been a director of the National Book Critics Circle.
Ms. Bingham’s grandson, Michael Iovenko (grade 7), invited her to come visit his class, and she graciously accepted the invitation.
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