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About Me

Writer in Residence:

December 2007-February 2008

Erin Worley



Erin Brooks Worley was raised in Gainesville, Florida. She earned her MFA from Syracuse University, where she was a creative writing fellow. Her work has appeared in publications such as New Stories from the South: The Year..'s Best, The Gettysburg Review, Indiana Review and Ninth Letter. She lives in San Francisco.

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My Blog

Remainders

Have you ever moved into a place and found objects left by the previous occupants?  Here are several I found in the Kerouac House:The snow globe would have been nice, except the water was discolo...
Posted by Kerouac House on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:05:00 PST

Reading this Saturday

+= ?My farewell reading will be held at the Kerouac House this Saturday night.  I'll probably read shorts/prose poems.  Several will address the arguably underexplored intersection between f...
Posted by Kerouac House on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:06:00 PST

One more Gatorland item...

...and then we can move on, I promise.Looking through my photos, I remembered this guy:And the gift shop, where we saw these:A little boy grabbed one and asked his father if it was a real gator. ...
Posted by Kerouac House on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:47:00 PST

Gator Kingdom

I should be posting about writing, but my process is really so boring.  It's all cups of coffee, typing, watching squirrels through the window, typing, a phone call, another cup of coffee, maybe ...
Posted by Kerouac House on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:56:00 PST

New Writer

Erin Brooks Worley Arrived at the beginning of December. She has survived the holidays (as have we) and is now comfortably writing in Jack's house. We wish her the best. (Although we haven't been...
Posted by Kerouac House on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:06:00 PST

Farewell, Orlando!

I can't believe it's been three months... my time in the Kerouac House has flown by! The last few weeks I've been sleeping back in Jack's tiny bedroom, and the place had this reverb of possibility. It...
Posted by Kerouac House on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:51:00 PST

Two Orlando readings this week!

Hi all, My book, Scrub, is on it's way to Orlando, and to celebrate it's arrival we'll be having to readings in College Park. The first is Wednesday, at Infusion Tea as part of the Joe P.'s Soft Focus...
Posted by Kerouac House on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 05:02:00 PST

around the block and back

I'm happy to announce I'm out of the writing rut I hit for about a week at the end of October. The Kerouac House is ever-inspiring, to be sure, but its tin roof can't protect me from everything. After...
Posted by Kerouac House on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:26:00 PST

Forthcoming! Scrub: Short Stories by Emily Nemens

One of the more exciting things that's been going on in Florida is writing and production for Scrub, my first collection of short stories. I came with plans to work on my first novel, Blue-eyed Apples...
Posted by Kerouac House on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:28:00 PST

apologies and introductions

Greetings from Orlando! First, an apology for the delay... there's been some technical difficulties with the login, but the Kerouac House is back online and ready to go! I've been blogging on another ...
Posted by Kerouac House on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:37:00 PST