The Betsy management team hosts a Meet the Artist Reception on Thursday, February 1, 5pm to 6pm in the Library. Meet The Betsy Writer's Room Arist in Residence Alysia Abbott and enjoy an hour of cultural conversation.
Since The Writer’s Room opened in 2012, more than 450 working writers (and other creators) have stayed at The Betsy and engaged in community service programs. To see who’s checking in next, visit our blog at betsywritersroom.com.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Alysia Abbott is the author of Fairyland, A Memoir of My Father, which was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and an ALA Stonewall Award winner and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards. She grew up in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, the only child of gay poet and writer, Steve Abbott. As a journalist and critic, she's written for The New York Times, Real Simple, Vogue, Marie Claire, OUT, Slate, Salon, TheAtlantic.com, TriQuarterly and Psychology Today, among other publications. She holds an MFA in Creative Non-Fiction from New School University and was a contributing producer at WNYC Radio. Alysia currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband and their two children.
