Last year, Erica Obey was invited to serve as a juror for the Woodstock/Byrdcliffe Guild’s Artists in Residence program. In this talk, she will discuss the selection process, covering everything from the broad issues of evaluating applications both subjectively and objectively to the specifics of the software platform used. This talk is aimed toward writers who are interested in applying to such programs, as well as those who have already participated in such programs and would like to share their own experiences.

Erica Obey is the author of a mystery novel, Back to the Garden, as well as scholarly work on female folklorists of the nineteenth century. She holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from City College and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from CUNY as well as an undergraduate degree from Yale. She currently teaches courses on mystery fiction and Arthurian romance at Fordham University.

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The Writing Life events in 2015 are generously underwritten by Jenny Lawrence.