Friday Speaker Series: Amy Bonnaffons and Ashley Beresch

"Postpartum Storytelling Project"

Amy Bonnaffons is Interim Associate Prose Editor at The Georgia Review.  She is the author of the story collection THE WRONG HEAVEN and the novel THE REGRETS, both published by Little, Brown.  Her fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Kenyon Review, The Sun, Essay Review and elsewhere, and have been read on NPR’s “This American Life.”  She holds a BA in Literature from Yale, an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU, and a PhD in English with Certificate in Women’s Studies from the University of Georgia. She has taught literature, writing, and women’s/gender studies at UGA, Emory and Agnes Scott College. Born in New York City, she now lives in Athens, GA.

Ashley Beresch is a writer and multidisciplinary artist living in Athens, Georgia. Over three decades on this weird planet, I have worn many hats: amateur filmmaker, small town journalist, garage rock guitarist, art teacher, bookseller. Currently a graduate student at University of Georgia in the Department of English, studying the work & life of writer Lillian E. Smith.