Name: Art, Appalachia, and the Opioid Crisis: A Conversation with Robert Gipe
Start: 2019-04-11T09:00:00-0400
End: 2019-04-11T09:45:00-0400

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Art, Appalachia, and the Opioid Crisis: A Conversation with Robert Gipe

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Dr. Allison Wright

Executive Editor & Publisher, Virginia Quarterly Review

Allison Wright is the executive editor and publisher of the Virginia Quarterly Review. Her writing has appeared in the Atlantic, the Guardian, CNN, VQR, Popular Mechanics, and elsewhere. She teaches media ethics and journalism in the master's program at NYU and at the University of... Read More →

Speakers

Robert Gipe

Producer, Higher Ground

Robert Gipe won the 2015 Weatherford Award for outstanding Appalachian novel for his first novel Trampoline. His second novel is Weedeater (2018). Both novels were published by Ohio University Press. From 1997 to 2018, Gipe directed the Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College... Read More →

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