For beginning to advanced writers who want to focus on healing through writing. The session will begin with a discussion of journaling, daily creative writing practice, and embodied writing and will end with free writing in response to a prompt.

Mary Mullen, from Wausau, Wisconsin, received her Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison and is an associate professor at Villanova University. She is the author of the award-winning academic monograph,  Novel Institutions: Anachronisms, Irish Novels and Nineteenth-Century Realism  (Edinburgh University Press). She is currently working on a hybrid memoir titled  Ghosts in the Marriage Plot  that moves between literary criticism of nineteenth-century novels and her personal experience in the midst of her divorce. Essays related to this project have been published in the  North Dakota Quarterly ,  The Nonconformist Magazine ,  The Rambling ,  Hyped on Melancholy , and  Epiphany Literature Magazine Online.