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Authors Helen Schulman, Deborah Paredez, and Davon Loeb talk tech in their creative writing in this Livecast event. You are encouraged to join in with your text comments and questions. Pen Parentis is a nonprofit and our mission is to keep writers on creative track after they start a family. Please visit our website at penparentis.org to find out more. If you have already donated, we thank you - you are helping writers stay on creative track. If you have not donated but wish to, you may follow this secure link: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/pen-parentis You can text to give by sending the text GIVEUS10 to the number 44-321 on your smartphone. Show your support! Moderated by M. M. De Voe and Christina Chiu, all writers presented by Pen Parentis have kids.

Watch Carol LaHines, Beverly Gologorsky, and David S. Dunbar discuss NYC, their novels, and being parent-writers with Pen Parentis! Pen Parentis is a literary nonprofit that helps writers stay on creative track after starting a family. While the event is free and open to the general public, we would welcome a $10 donation per attendee to cover costs. Carol LaHines is a novelist based in NYC. Her novel, Someday Everything Will All Make Sense, was a finalist for the Nilsen Prize for a First Novel, an American Fiction Award, and other prizes. Her fiction has appeared in literary journals including Fence, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Denver Quarterly and Literal Latte. Her short story, “Papijack,” won the Lamar York Prize for Fiction. She has been a finalist for the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction from Sarabande Books, the David Nathan Meyerson fiction prize, the New Letters short story award, and the Disquiet Literary Prize, among others. She is a graduate of New York University, Gallatin Division, and of St. John’s University School of Law. She began her writing career as a student of Phil Schultz at the Writers Studio, and for the last decade has studied principally with Rick Moody, who also read at Pen Parentis! She is the mother of a fifteen-year-old who is a student at the Bronx High School of Science. She spent many years practicing commercial litigation and is also a musician! Beverly Gologorsky is the author of the just-published novel Every Body Has a Story (Dispatch/Haymarket Books), as well as the novels The Things We Do to Make It Home (a New York Times notable book), and Stop Here (an Indie Next pick). Her work has appeared in anthologies, magazines, and newspapers, including The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. She has recently contributed essays to several anthologies and is the former editor of two political journals: VietReport and Leviathan. She is well known as an activist in the women's and peace movements. She lives in New York. Her partner, Charles Wiggins, lives in New England, where Gologorsky spends a good deal of time. She has a daughter. Her next novel "Can You See The Wind," is forthcoming in Spring, 2021. David Dunbar is the author of the award-winning Empire City: New York through the Centuries (with Kenneth T. Jackson of Columbia University). He is a Fellow of The New York Academy of History.Following over two decades of teaching at Deerfield Academy, Milton Academy and Albuquerque Academy, David moved to New York, in 1996, to start CITYterm at The Masters School. He was the Academic Dean and a member of the interdisciplinary Urban Core teaching team at CITYterm for twenty-one years. While at The Masters School, David also served as the Coordinator for Teaching and Learning Initiatives and held the Joan Smith Hamill ‘34 Chair for Innovative Teaching. He earned his B.A. from Amherst College, his M.A.R. from Yale University and has been the recipient of Woodrow Wilson, Klingenstein and Fulbright Fellowships. David has two sons and three grandsons and one grandson coming in December--all redheads. The event was moderated by co-hosts Christina Chiu, who curates this series and whose novel Beauty won the James Alan McPherson Award and launched in May, and M. M. De Voe, the recipient of multiple arts grants, who founded Pen Parentis. For ten years this series has shattered negative stereotypes of parents in literary careers by celebrating the creative diversity of high-quality work penned by professional writers who have kids. This PEN PARENTIS LITERARY SALON was made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by LMCC.

Watch readings from Sarah Kain Gutowski, Tim Donnelly, Nancy Hoch, and Len Lawson with co-hosts M. M. De Voe and Christina Chiu! Live cast will start around 7:15pm EST on Tuesday Night. Join us and watch from the comfort of your own home - we’ll do the work! We are not likely to comment on your comments yet - but will gladly comment when the event is over. We would love to hear your thoughts! Please be advised that sound quality might not be the top - we don’t have special sound feeds yet, and are filming on ambient sound. If you would like to donate to make our sound better, we are happy to use your connections, your expertise, and/or your funds to improve the sound quality for everyone! Thanks and we hope you enjoy!

Watch readings from authors Dawn Raffel and Richard Peabody with co-hosts M. M. De Voe and Christina Chiu! Live cast will start around 7:15pm EST on Tuesday night. Join us from the comfort of your own sofa - we’ll do the work! We are not likely to comment yet, but will gladly comment once the event is over. We would love to hear your thoughts! Please be advised that sound quality might not be spectacular. We don’t have special sound feeds yet, and are filming on ambient sound. If you would like to donate to make our sound better, we are happy to use your connections, your expertise, and/or your funds to improve sound quality for everyone! Thanks and we hope you enjoy!