A new anthology co-edited by Jen Hirt, assistant professor of creative writing and English composition, is featured in Essay Daily, an online journal that focuses on creative nonfiction.
The book, “Creating Nonfiction: Twenty Essays and Interviews with the Writers,” was published in March by SUNY Press and co-edited with Erin Murphy, professor of English at Penn State Altoona.
For the Essay Daily piece, Murphy and Hirt were asked to discuss two of the essays in the anthology. They chose the memoir essay "Kestrel Avenue" by Cheryl Strayed and the graphic essay "The City of the Century" by Kristen Radtke.
Read their conversation at www.essaydaily.org/2016/05/writing-other-half-conversation-about.html.
Hirt also contributed an essay, "Swingline Nine," to “From Curlers to Chainsaws: Women and Their Machines.” The anthology recently won gold in the anthology category of the Independent Publisher Book Award series for 2016.
She is also the co-editor, along with Tina Mitchell from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette, of the anthology “Kept Secret: The Half-Truth in Nonfiction,” to be published by Michigan State University Press in 2017.
