2012 Texas Poet Laureate Jan Seale to speak at LSC-Tomball on October 25th

LSC-Tomball on October 25th

TOMBALL, Texas– 2012 Texas Poet Laureate Jan Seale will speak about her writing and well as the creative writing process on Thursday, October 25 at 12:30 p.m. at Lone Star College-Tomball in room N103. The event, sponsored by the LSC-Tomball Inkling Creative Writing Club, is free and open to the community. Refreshments will be served.
Jan Epton Seale, the 2012 Texas Poet Laureate, is a native Texan who lives in McAllen, in the southern tip of Texas. She is the author of seven volumes of poetry, two books of short fiction, three books of nonfiction, and nine children's books.

Her writing has appeared in many magazines and newspapers including The Yale Review, Texas Monthly, The Chicago Tribune, andWriter’s Digest. Some anthologies including her work are Writing on the Wind, Let’s Hear It!, Red Boots and Attitude, If I Had My Life to Live Over, Cries of the Spirit, Mixed Voices, This Place in Memory, and Birds in the Hand.

In 1982, Seale received a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship in poetry. Seven of her short stories were chosen in the P.E.N. Syndicated Fiction Awards series. Her poetry has received the Kathryn Morris Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of Texas, and the Bill Burke Award and Dolly Sprunk Memorial Award from the New York Poetry Forum. Her stories and poems have been broadcast over National Public Radio.

Workshops and readings by Seale have taken place in Washington, Oregon, Oklahoma, Taos and Santa Fe, New Mexico, and in Texas in Dallas, Denton, Waco, Houston, Abilene, El Paso, Austin, and San Antonio, as well as many in the Rio Grande Valley.
For 16 years she was the South Texas editor of Texas Books in Review. Other editorial work includes serving as a founding editor of RiverSedge literary journal and as an editor of The Valley Land Fund pictorial volumes.
Seale was born in Pilot Point, Texas, graduated from Waxahachie High School, attended Baylor University, and received a B.A. from The University of Louisville and a M.A. from North Texas State University.
She taught English and creative writing at The University of Texas-Pan American and at North Texas State University. For a number of years, she has taught workshops in creative and memoir writing, both locally and nationally at conference centers such as Ghost Ranch in New Mexico, Gemini Ink in San Antonio, and Mo Ranch in the Hill Country of Texas.
Seale is available for readings of her work and for workshops in writing poetry and nonfiction. Besides these genre interests, she specializes in the subject areas of memoir, nature, aging, spirituality, and women's lives. She is on the Speaker's Bureau She and her husband Carl, a retired symphony conductor and composer, have three grown sons and four grandsons.
“We are privileged to have Jan Seale come to our campus because few writers can capture South Texas and its landscape and people as sensitively as she does,” said English Professor Catherine Olson.
Room N103 is located just off of the Student Commons area in the center of campus. The college is located at 30555 Tomball Parkway in Tomball, TX. For more information, contact Catherine Olson at Catherine.H.Olson@lonestar.eduor at 281.357.3776.