![]() ![]() Keija Parssinen is the author of the novels The Ruins of Us, which earned a Michener-Copernicus award and was chosen as a Best Book of the Mid-East Region 2013 by Turkey’s Today’s Zaman newspaper, and The Unraveling of Mercy Louis, which won an Alex Award from the American Library Association, was named a Best Book of 2015 by the Kansas City Star, and was chosen as a Book of the Month Club pick by Emily St. Keija hopes to complete a rough draft of the book while in residence. She will have completed three of thirteen chapters and have outlined the remaining ones. ![]() While she doesn’t believe that art-making is therapeutic, she does think that it offers us space to speak the unspeakable, and therefore begin the process of understanding what has happened to us, and who we are now.Īt Bethany Arts Community, Keija will continue work on her memoir-in-progress, HOMELAND INSECURITY: COMING OF AGE IN AMERICA’S KINGDOM. Geared towards exploring the ways in which we are haunted by the person we were before March 2020, we will discuss how can we use memories of pre-Covid times to help us grieve our losses, as well as lessons learned about our values in order to map a way forward. ![]() Workshop for Residents + Studio Artists + Staff ![]()
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