The Craft of Memoir Writing with Lori Soderlind via Zoom

Join long-time memoirist, professor, and journalist Lori Soderlind as she teaches a craft class on the fundamentals of memoir writing.

Lori Soderlind is author of two memoirs: The Change (My Great-American, Postindustrial, Midlife Crisis Tour) and Chasing Montana (A Love Story). The Change was nominated for a LAMBDA Award in 2021. She is the beloved former director of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Manhattanville College and now teaches at Skidmore. Her writing has appeared in anthologies and journals; her essay “66 Signs” is included in the Norton Anthology of Best Creative Nonfiction. She has reviewed books for the New York Times and elsewhere.

Lori began her career in print journalism, working as a reporter, editor, and freelancer for newspapers and magazines across New Jersey and New York. After earning an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University, she worked as a city editor at the Times Union newspaper in Albany, NY, and taught writing at SUNY’s Albany campus. She was also an adjunct professor at Columbia University and Western Connecticut State University and a professor of journalism at Norwalk Community College in Norwalk, CT,  before taking her position as director of the Manhattanville College MFA program.