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See all- Author Iris Jamahl Dunkle on Building ReadershipDominican University of California, San Rafael, CA
3:30 – 5:30 pm
Dominican University in San Rafael
FREE
REGISTERRemote access also available via live Zoom broadcast. You may select your ticket type at registration.
This event is co-sponsored with Dominican University MFA Creative Writing Program
Iris Jamahl Dunkle will discuss the art of building a platform to grow your audience as an author including everything from developing a weekly Substack, fostering an online presence through social media platforms, scheduling strategic readings and developing community through literary citizenry work to connect with readers, editors, and the literary world.
Iris Jamahl Dunkle is an Emerita Poet Laureate of Sonoma County and a faculty member at UC Davis and she teaches in the Dominican University Low-Res MFA program. She has authored two biographies: Charmian Kittredge London: Trailblazer, Author, Adventurer (University of Oklahoma Press, 2020) and Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb (University of California Press, 2024). Her fourth poetry collection, West : Fire : Archive, was recently published by The Center for Literary Publishing. Dunkle writes a weekly blog called Finding Lost Voices, which revives the voices of women who have been forgotten or misremembered and serves as the Poetry and Translation Director at the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference. She’s on the board of the National Book Critics Circle where she is the Co-VP of Awards.
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