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This struggle in contradiction takes the form of a dialogue, and each story Ruth tells herself is commented upon by a midrash, a narrative exploration of a biblical text. A Woman of Salt is a daring and complex novel that confronts the dangers of introspection and the healing power of imagination. in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College, she began publishing fiction.
A Woman of Salt opens with Ruth VanderZicht receiving the news that her mother is dying and is asking for her.
Ruth is thrown into a fierce turmoil of memory in which she veers between love and anger, sense and insanity, as she decides whether to heed her mother's call. This remodeling, financed by Mrs. Thomas E. Emery of Cincinnati…
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In an uncommon mosaic of fiction and commentary, a new writer brilliantly explores the conflict between a woman's mundane secular life and her passionate longing for spirituality.
in theology from the University of Chicago Divinity School, and, for many years taught historical, constructive, and feminist theology at Christian seminars across the country.
Mary Potter Engel
Disciplines:Literature – fiction
Mary Potter Engel holds a Ph.D. Strangers and Sojourners, her collection of linked stories from the Low Country of South Carolina, will be released in Spring 2004.
in creative writing and lives in Washington with her family. in Christian theology from the University of Chicago and was for many years a tenured professor of theology. . Her book of linked Southern stories, STRANGERS and SOJOURNERS, had just been released by counterpoint.
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Mary Potter Engel worked in the Barnard studio.
When the small structure was moved, its size was doubled with the addition of a second room.
She is the author of John Calvin’s Perspectival Anthropology as well as numerous articles on feminist theology and sexual and domestic violence. Learn how you can support artists year-round.
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Currently a resident of Shoreline, Engel teaches Jewish history and theology at Limmud NW, a community program of Adult Jewish Studies in the greater Seattle area, and conducts writing workshops in the area.As part of her Fellowship’s Meet the Artist requirements, Mary and Charlene Finn spoke at a brown bag lunch session attended by 30 students, faculty members, and staffpersons at the Helen Jewett Student Center in Petrie Hall on “Why Writing Matters.” They spoke about why writing matters, how they found their voice, how they came to their subject and the importance of others finding their own voices and subjects.
Her story ‘Let Them Big Animals Come Back’ won first prize in the 2000 Southern Women’s Writers Conference contest for emerging writers. Her debut novel, A Woman of Salt, was published in 2001. In the afternoon they spoke to a group of 35 writers including students from a composition class and an Honors English class, as well as faculty and staff. An open discussion followed.
She recently received her M.F.A. She is the author of Strangers and Sojourners: Stories from the Lowcountry.
At MacDowell, Mary continued work of drafting her second novel, LOSING THE WAY, and completed an essay on Alzheimer's and the human condition. It is a resonant meditation and a beautiful story of one woman's longing and spiritual regeneration.
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Fellowship Awards 2003
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Mary Potter Engel (Shoreline) received her Ph.D.