Liz Kisacky Severn to Present at Women of Resilience 2016 New Orleans Conference
English Professor Liz Kisacky Severn’s presentation, titled “Writing To and Through The Wound: Finding the Authentic Voice,” focuses on the negative effect tragedy and grief can have on a writer’s voice. It is in connection with her novel “Luce Women.” Such an inauthentic voice drives the individual’s narrative and numbs the self, preventing success both in coming to terms with grief and in mastering creative endeavors. In pursuing honest grief work and engaging the concrete and specific rather than the abstract and vague, a writer’s voice then becomes authentic.
The conference is presented by The American Institute of Medical Education (AIMED) & Creativity and Madness.
“AIMED was founded in 1982 to provide the best quality and most interesting continuing education possible to physicians, social workers, psychologists, marriage and family therapists and anyone interested in the psychology of artists and the creative process.”
New Orleans, LA • October 19-23, 2016 • The Bourbon Orleans Hotel