Surviving a Massacre
A massacre is the killing of several people at one time. Sometimes, these horrendous events follow civil rights movements. Why do massacres happen? What happens to the survivors? How do they recover and live with the trauma? How does a society recover from these horrendous events? In Teresa Ortiz’s presentation, she will share her experience…
Why I chose to write psychological literary fiction and what I have done as a writer
When I was young, I was a voracious reader. I fell in love with the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald in high school, happened upon Dostoyevsky in a bookstore the summer after I graduated from high school, and discovered Proust a year later. These are three of the greatest authors of psychological literary fiction. I…