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“Queer and Disabled: Sandra Gail Lambert on Writing Memoir”
October 19, 2018 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
FreeJoin author Sandra Gail Lambert in Pugh Hall 120 for a short reading from her memoir, A Certain Loneliness, and conversation about the challenges and rewards of narrating a life trajectory informed but not determined by queerness, disability, and the expectations they engender.
In writing described by Andrew Solomon as “moving, intimate, and bracing honest,” Lambert revises received wisdom and cultural scripts to create new understandings and make space for new ways of living. This event is an opportunity to hear from the author about how she did it, why it’s important, and how the genre conventions of memoir both facilitate and inhibit the narration of atypical lives, unusual choices, and unexpected possibilities.
Sandra Gail Lambert writes fiction and memoir that is often about the body and its relationship to the natural world. She is the author of A Certain Loneliness: A Memoir and the novel The River’s Memory. Lambert is a 2018 NEA Creative Writing Fellow, and her writing has been published in The Paris Review, LitHub, The Southern Review, and Brevity.
This event is free and open to the public. Funded by UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere (Rothman Endowment), the Department of English, and the Program in Creative Writing.