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JOIN US AT THE 5:30PM SHOWING OF GET OUT ON SATURDAY, MARCH 18, FOR A PRE-SHOW TALK BY RENEE SIMMS, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND!
GET OUT - Pre-Show Talk with Renee Simms
March 18th 5:40pm
JOIN US AT THE 5:30PM SHOWING OF GET OUT ON SATURDAY, MARCH 18, FOR A PRE-SHOW TALK BY RENEE SIMMS, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND!
MORE ABOUT RENEE SIMMS:
Renee Simms is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, a John Gardner Fiction Fellowship at Bread Loaf, and fellowships from Ragdale and Vermont Studio Center. She's an associate professor of African American Studies at University of Puget Sound and teaches with the Rainier Writing Workshop, Pacific Lutheran's low-residency MFA program. Her debut story collection Meet Behind Mars was a Foreword Indies finalist for Short Stories, was featured on NPR, the National Book Critics Circle blog, and was listed by The Root as one of 28 brilliant books by Black authors in 2018. Renee is currently at work on a book about an historic Black neighborhood.