Reclaiming Our Stories with Nadia Owusu

Part of the Chippewa Valley Book Festival, join us for a presentation from writer Nadia Owusu!

Writers of nonfiction often write to make sense of the world and to wrestle with questions about their own histories, and the histories of their families and the places they come from. They write to process trauma, grief, isolation, dislocation, and disconnection. Owusu will discuss what happens when we discover that so many of the stories that we’ve been given about our bodies, ourselves, our homes, and our places in them don’t serve us and how writing can help reclaim and remake our stories toward healing, self-love, and a radically reimagined world.

About the Author

Nadia Owusu is a Ghanaian and Armenian American writer and urbanist. Her memoir, Aftershocks, was selected as a best book of 2021 by Time, Vogue, Esquire, NPR, and others. It was one of former President Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year and a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. In 2019, Nadia was the recipient of a Whiting Award. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, The Paris Review Daily, The Guardian, Slate, Bon Appétit, Travel + Leisure, and others. Owusu teaches at Columbia University and in the Mountainview MFA program and lives in Brooklyn.

Learn more about Nadia Owusu at nadiaaowusu.com.

This virtual presentation is co-hosted by the University of Wisconsin–Stout and is made possible with technology assistance from the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library.