Writers Lynne Hinton, Malena Morling, and Carolyn Beard Whitlow will participate in a panel discussion about the challenges and joys of writing about feminist issues at 7 p.m., Wednesday, March 28 in the Isabella Cannon Room, located in the Center for the Arts on the Elon campus. They will discuss their careers as successful women writers and offer advice to others who want to make writing a career. Sponsored by the Women’s/Gender Studies program, this event is free and open to the public.
Hinton earned an undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a Masters of Divinity from Pacific School of Religion. Hinton writes a regular column for The Charlotte Observer and is the author of several books, including “Meditations for Walking.” Her latest book, “The Arms of God,” debuted in November 2005.
Malena Morling is a poet who teaches at UNC Wilmington. She studied Creative Writing at New York University and at the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop. Her writing has received a number of recognitions, including the most recent Lotos Club Foundation Prize (2004). Her most recent publication is Astoria, published by Pittsburgh University Press in 2006.
Whitlow earned a master’s degree from Brown University and a doctorate from Cornell University. Whitlow is the Charles A. Dana Professor of English at Guilford College, where she teaches courses in creative writing and African-American literature. A finalist for the 1991 Barnard New Women Poets Prize, she wrote her first poem at age 30 while working on her doctorate. Selected as one of ten North Carolina poets to appear on the 1997 PBS series “Poetry Live” hosted by Charles Kuralt, her most recent collection of poems, “Vanished,” was named a finalist for the 2005 Ohio State University/The Journal Prize in Poetry.