Ohio author David Giffels will be the 2023 Friends of the Library speaker.
A former Akron Beacon Journal columnist, his writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic.com, Parade, The Wall Street Journal, Esquire.com, Grantland.com, The Iowa Review, and many other publications. He also wrote for the MTV series Beavis and Butt-Head. He is the author of several books, including Barnstorming Ohio, Furnishing Eternity, and his latest…on the Akron band Devo.
His awards include the Cleveland Arts Prize for literature, the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and a General Excellence award from National Society of Newspaper Columnists. He was selected as the Cuyahoga County Public Library Writer in Residence for 2018-2019. Giffels is a professor of English at the University of Akron, where he teaches creative nonfiction in the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts Program.
His title will be: “No Poor, Indifferent Place: Writing When You Have No Ideas”
This year’s event will be re-designed a bit. It’s a tapas affair and library staff will be honored invitees. I hope you will join us.
