With an almost unprecedented, endless New England snowy winter, I had more time than I could have anticipated. “One of the greatest things you can give a writer is the gift of time. Here is Thomas’ essay about her tenure as Lakes Writer-in-Residence: Thomas also cites Smith’s dedication to offering “a myriad of writing experiences for students” as evidenced by her collaborations with faculty in the theatre and Afro-American studies departments and the Jacobson Center for Writing, Teaching and Learning. “These writers nurtured, challenged and supported each other as they worked to imagine the impossible, to make ‘fabulism’ natural and ‘real.’” “It has been particularly inspiring to work with talented, young women who have such distinctive, diverse aesthetics as writers and readers,” she writes. In an essay she wrote for Grécourt Gate, Thomas reflects on her experiences teaching at Smith. Sheree Renée Thomas, this year’s Lakes Writer-in-Residence, is teaching a course titled “Writing the Marvelous Real.” Thomas is the author of Shotgun Lullabies: Stories and Poems and editor of the groundbreaking anthology Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora and its sequel, Dark Matter: Reading the Bones. Established in 2013 with a $1 million gift from alumna Jane Lakes Harman ’66 in memory of her mother, the program is designed around intensive workshops where visiting writers teach small classes and hold one-on-one conferences with students.
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