When I left Dallas, Texas for college at 17, I knew I wanted to be a writer, in fact was always writing. Among the images I carried with me was one of airplanes taking off from Love Field, back when Love Field was the main airport. My mother used to take my sister and me to the observation deck where we’d stand in the dark, watching the lights out on the runway as the planes lifted; we followed the lights blinking in the sky until we couldn’t see them any more.
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Joanne Leedom-Ackerman | Literary Arts Program
January 19th, 2018, 6:59AM
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman is a novelist, short story writer, and journalist whose works of fiction include The Dark Path to the River and No Marble Angels.. Joanne is Vice President of PEN International and former International Secretary of PEN International and former Chair of its Writers in Prison Committee. She serves on boards of PEN American Center, PEN Faulkner Foundation and Poets and Writers. She also serves on the boards of the International Crisis Group, Johns Hopkins University and Refugees International and is an emeritus board member of Human Rights Watch and Brown University . A former reporter for The Christian Science Monitor, Joanne has taught writing at New York University, City University of New York, Occidental College and in the Writers’ Program at the University of California at Los Angeles extension. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Joanne lives in Washington, DC.
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman | Literary Arts Program
January 19th, 2018, 6:59AM
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman is a novelist, short story writer, and journalist whose works of fiction include The Dark Path to the River and No Marble Angels.. Joanne is Vice President of PEN International and former International Secretary of PEN International and former Chair of its Writers in Prison Committee. She serves on boards of PEN American Center, PEN Faulkner Foundation and Poets and Writers. She also serves on the boards of the International Crisis Group, Johns Hopkins University and Refugees International and is an emeritus board member of Human Rights Watch and Brown University . A former reporter for The Christian Science Monitor, Joanne has taught writing at New York University, City University of New York, Occidental College and in the Writers’ Program at the University of California at Los Angeles extension. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Joanne lives in Washington, DC.
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February 15th, 2018, 2:51AM
When I left Dallas, Texas for college at 17, I knew I wanted to be a writer, in fact was always writing. Among the images I carried with me was one of airplanes taking off from Love Field, back when Love Field was the main airport. My mother used to take my sister and me to the observation deck where we’d stand in the dark, watching the lights out on the runway as the planes lifted; we followed the lights blinking in the sky until we couldn’t see them any more.
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