Author of New Novel on Sylvia Plath to Lecture at Williams, March 10

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Feb. 27, 2003–Author Kate Moses will give a reading at Williams College on Monday, March 10, at 4 p.m. in Griffin Hall, room 3. Moses is author of the just-published reality based fiction, “Wintering,” about Sylvia Plath’s last year before her death. The book, published by St. Martin’s Press has been chosen as a book-of-the month selection in Great Britain.

Evan Connell, author of “Son of the Morning Star,” describes “Wintering” as “… a unique spiritual biography that might be called the nimbus of Sylvia Plath. Kate Moses and the tormented poet seem to have shared one life. The prose is exact and the resonance extraordinary.”

Moses is a founding editor of Salon.com, the online magazine, where she edited the critically acclaimed section titled “Mothers Who Think” from 1997 to 2000. “Mothers Who Think” addresses the seemingly contradictory pairing of motherhood and intellectual discourse.

At Salon.com she also wrote a two-part cover story titled “The Real Sylvia Plath: Her newly published unexpurgated journals reveal the poet’s true demons &endash; and support a little known theory about what drove her to suicide.” The series ran May 30 and June 1, 2000.

Before founding Salon.com, she was literary director of Intersection of the Arts, a nationally recognized literary series, and senior editor of the North Point Press in Berkeley.

She is an advisor to the Literary Program at the Lannan Foundation, a major supporter of writers and nonprofit literary organizations.

Moses has written approximately 150 feature stories, reviews, essays and profiles, which have appeared in national and regional print and online magazines, journals, and newspapers, including The San Francisco Examiner, Hungry Mind Review, Publishers Weekly, Review of Contemporary Fiction, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, San Francisco Focus, Sunset, SF, Diversions, Details, and Fitness.

She received her B.A. from the University of the Pacific.

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Published February 27, 2003