Guest Lecturer Paula Huston: "Welcoming the Stranger"

Paula Huston, a National Endowment of the Arts Fellow, is the author of two novels and seven works of spiritual nonfiction. Her short stories and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals and magazines. A former writing and literature teacher in the California State University system, she currently mentors graduate students in creative nonfiction for the Seattle Pacific MFA program. A wife, mother, and grandmother, she is an oblate, or vowed lay member, of a Camaldolese Benedictine monastic community in Big Sur, California.

Co-sponsored by Cook Commons, The Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life, and Middlebury InterVarsity Christian Fellowship.