Please join the MFA Org on Thursday, December 4th, from 12:45-1:45 pm on the second floor of the Writers House for a salon presentation by Writers House Coordinator & Rutgers–Camden MFA alum Sienna Zeilinger!
Sienna will give a craft talk called “Leaps.” How can you trust a reader to follow your train of thought without holding their hand too tightly? We’ll talk about several ways to build subtle scaffolding into an essay so that your reader will make the leap with you.
Bio: Sienna Zeilinger lives in Philadelphia and is originally from Cleveland, Ohio. Her writing is published or forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, CutBank, Passages North, Real Life, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of The Florida Review Editors Prize, the Ohioana Library Association’s Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant, and the Montana Prize, and has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Her essay “Surge” was named a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2023. Sienna is an editor at Autofocus Books and a graduate of the MFA Program at Rutgers University-Camden, where she now works as Program Coordinator.