Lou Ann Walker

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Lou Ann Walker is an author and a professor in the MFA in Creative Writing and Literature Program at Stony Brook Southampton, as well as a founding Editor of The Southampton Review . Her memoir A Loss for Words received a Christopher Award for high standards in Communication. [1]

Stony Brook Southampton

Stony Brook Southampton is a campus location of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, located in Southampton, New York between the Shinnecock Indian Reservation and Shinnecock Hills Golf Club on the eastern end of Long Island.

The Christopher Award is presented to the producers, directors, and writers of books, films and television specials that "affirm the highest values of the human spirit". It is given by The Christophers, a Christian organization founded in 1945 by the Maryknoll priest James Keller.

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Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in many publications, including The New York Times Magazine , Esquire , Life , Allure , Parade , The Chicago Sun-Times , The New York Times Book Review , O: The Oprah Magazine , The Writer , and The Hopewell Review. Formerly an editor at Esquire and New York Magazine, Walker has lectured on writing at Smith College and Yale University, and taught at Marymount Manhattan College, Southampton College, and Columbia University. [2]

<i>The New York Times Magazine</i>

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Her awards include a Marguerite Higgins reporting award and an NEA grant in Creative Writing. The author of several screenplays, she is also a member of the Writers Guild of America.

The Writers Guild of America is the joint efforts of two different US labor unions representing TV and film writers:

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  1. ↑ "A Daughter's Book Breaks Isolating Silence for Her Deaf Parents".
  2. ↑ "Stony Brook University - MFA in Creative Writing & Literature People".
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