Meet The Authors

Beth Loffreda

Loffreda@uwyo.edu

http://uwacadweb.uwyo.edu/english/faculty_staff/faculty_pages.htm/Loffreda_Beth/Beth_Loffreda.htm

Beth Loffreda teaches workshops in non-fiction as well as courses in recent American and African-American literature at the University of Wyoming. She has written about Wyoming in Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder (Columbia University Press, 2000). Currently she's working on essays about a variety of American eccentrics. She grew up in Audubon, Pennsylvania, and attended the University of Virginia (BA) and Rutgers (PhD in English). Since arriving at UW in 1998, she has won the Ellbogen Meritorious Teaching award, the Jason Thompson Commitment to Diversity award, and Top Ten Teacher, among other honors. She's usually outside. Loffreda will be teaching a two-day non-fiction writing workshop offering CEU's, Thursday and Friday, Sept. 18-19, room 217 in the Strausner Student Center at Casper College, and will also appear on the panel: "Plain Facts and True Stories", scheduled for 9:00 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 20th, at the Nicolaysen Art Museum. Her books are already for sale at the Casper College book store, room 215 in the Strausner Center. She will also be available to sign books after the Saturday panel.