In an eleven-month period\, Nancy Hauswald lost four members of her immediate family\, including her husband of 32 y ears. After poking her head out from under the rock where she&rsquo\;d bee n hiding for eighteen months\, she pursued a lifelong dream of going to gr aduate school and getting an MFA degree in Creative Writing. As part of he r thesis requirement\, Nancy studied three memoirs about grief and analyze d how the authors used the cornerstones of time\, place\, and artifacts to create meaning out of chaos.
\nThis presentation\, Good Grief\, pre sents how those memoirists&mdash\;Ann Hood (Comfort)\, Mark Doty (Heaven&r squo\;s Coast)\, and Trent Preszler (Little and Often)&mdash\; used writin g as an important component of healing after loss.
\nNancy is the ma nager of an independent bookshop in Belfast\, Maine\, and has been a freel ance writer and editor. She is currently writing a book about the nearly t en years she spent as a cruising sailor with her late husband\, as well as essays on such eclectic and diverse topics as seasickness\, saddle shoes\ , the art of bookselling\, and being a widow.
\nNancy&rsquo\;s emoti onally compelling narrative presentation will be followed by an opportunit y for questions\, comments\, and discussion.
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