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Genesee Reading Series

Now in its 24th year, the Genesee Reading Series presents writers from the greater Genesee Valley region.

Now in its 24th year, the Genesee Reading Series presents writers from the greater Genesee Valley region.

Hosted by Wanda Schubmehl

$3 W&B members, $6 general public

7:30 p.m., W&B

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Elizabeth Osta & KathleenVan Schaick

Elizabeth Osta has been writing stories about her family since she was in grade school.  Now she is about to publish her first novel, Imagining Jeremiah, in which she tells the story of her great grandfather whose home she found in Ireland in 1994. 

The author of articles, essays, poems and short stories, she is pleased to be completing a novel that tells not only the story of her family but of the Irish history that has shaped the lives of so many Irish American families. She has recently returned from her ninth trip to Ireland.

Osta is currently working on a memoir of her years in the convent.  Currently, she lives in Pittsford with her husband, Dave Van Arsdale. 

Kathleen Van Schaick's poem "women fish”  won first place in the 2006  S. Portia Steele Memorial Contest sponsored by the San Francisco/Peninsula Chapter of the California Writers Club.  

Kathleen’s poems have been published in ByLine Magazine, Sea Stories, journal of Blue Ocean Institute,and has been anthologized inThe Dire Elegies, 59 Writers on Endangered Species and Listening to Water, anthology of the Susquehanna Watershed.  She is an active member of the Just Poets organization, and is their immediate past secretary.

A retired teacher, she also reads for the blind and visually impaired on WXXI’s Reach Out Radio, and is creating a weekly program on senior issues. She also volunteers at Serenity House, a comfort care home for the terminally ill in Victor. 

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