Faculty, Students, and an Alum of Defiance College Present at SSML
In May, 2009, Dawn Comer, Jared Erickson, MC Harper, and Angela Santo traveled to Lansing, Michigan,
to present at the conference of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature. While there we
enjoyed the presentation of DC alum Kasey Coder. This is Kasey's second year at the conference.
Congratulations to Dawn Comer, the recipient of the SSML 2009 Prize for Prose.
Dawn, a Creative Writing instructor at DC, has been attending the conference for several years.
The English Department of Defiance College provided support for Jared and Angela's presentations.
Jared Erickson discusses his creative nonfiction reading with an appreciative conference participant.
Angela Santo and Dawn Comer relax at the end of the day.
Kasey Coder joins the group at the conference center, the MSU Union.
Kasey's presentation, a reading of one of her many humorous memoirs.
Jared gets some writing done in between conference sessions.
Dawn and Jared enjoy the conference award dinner.
In a "stripes on stripes moment," Dawn poses with her Prose Prize check.
Angela gives bio notes to the chair of her session on fiction.
Angela reading her well-received fiction piece.