Normal & Disordered Eating
Faculty Mentor
Christina Olson, Writing & Linguistics
Faculty Mentor Email
colson@georgiasouthern.edu
Presentation Type and Release Option
Senior Reading Video (File Not Available for Download)
Award Type
Virtual
Presentation Year
2021
Start Date
4-25-2021 12:00 AM
Presenter Biography
Carley is a first generation college graduate in her family. This past year she was nominated for two submissions in the AWP Intro Journals, and she was a finalist for the Brittany "Ally" Harbuck Award. After graduating, she plans to take a year off from school to work and comb through her writing samples before sending them off to graduate programs, where she plans to work towards her MFA in Creative Nonfiction. After that, she wants to teach writing at a university, preferably somewhere that has four distinct seasons.
Artistic Statement: I think my writing actually started as a way for me to escape reality. I would write these crazy and wild works of fiction, things that could never actually happen or be real (like time traveling pink elephants). But at some point it transitioned into me learning ways to learn about what it was that I was trying so hard to escape from, and to heal from them. I would say writers like Patricia Lockwood and Laurie Halse Anderson showed me that as writers we have a responsibility to tell the hard stories. Not necessarily our own (as Anderson’s work Speak is technically fiction), but a responsibility to put words to things that other people can’t.
Academic Unit
Department of Writing and Linguistics
Normal & Disordered Eating
Virtual
Carley is a first generation college graduate in her family. This past year she was nominated for two submissions in the AWP Intro Journals, and she was a finalist for the Brittany "Ally" Harbuck Award. After graduating, she plans to take a year off from school to work and comb through her writing samples before sending them off to graduate programs, where she plans to work towards her MFA in Creative Nonfiction. After that, she wants to teach writing at a university, preferably somewhere that has four distinct seasons.
Artistic Statement: I think my writing actually started as a way for me to escape reality. I would write these crazy and wild works of fiction, things that could never actually happen or be real (like time traveling pink elephants). But at some point it transitioned into me learning ways to learn about what it was that I was trying so hard to escape from, and to heal from them. I would say writers like Patricia Lockwood and Laurie Halse Anderson showed me that as writers we have a responsibility to tell the hard stories. Not necessarily our own (as Anderson’s work Speak is technically fiction), but a responsibility to put words to things that other people can’t.
