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10/25/04

SLU WRITERS SERIES HOSTS JANE SATTERFIELD

CANTON – Poet and essayist Jane Satterfield will read from her works in an appearance 
at St. Lawrence University on Thursday, November 11, at 8 p.m. in Herring-Cole, as part 
of the University's Writers Series. The event is open to the public, free of charge.
	Satterfield's first collection of poems, Shepherdess with an Automatic, was 
awarded the 2000 Towson University Prize for Literature, given to a single collection 
by a Maryland author under the age of 40. Her most recent poetry collection, 
Assignation at Vanishing Point, won the 2003 Elixir Prize. A Pushcart Prize nominee 
for essay and poetry, her awards include a John Atherton Scholarship Prize in 
Poetry at Breadloaf, the Heekin Foundation's Cuchulain Prize for Rhetoric in the 
Essay, the John Guyon Literary Nonfiction prize, and grants from the Maryland 
State Arts Council and Britain's Arvon Foundation.
      Born in England and educated in the U.S., she is an assistant professor at 
Loyola College in Maryland. Satterfield is the author of a lyric essay in the 
recent Seneca Review and was a Jakobsen Fellow in Nonfiction at Wesleyan Writers' 
Conference in 2004.
      For more information, contact the English department, at 315-229-5125.

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