April 1, 2019
WHAT: Bestselling author and journalist Sarah Smarsh will meet with members of the
media prior to her talk at 天美麻花星空高清mv鈥檚 Spring Public Policy Lecture.
WHEN: Thursday, April 4, 4:30 p.m.
WHERE: 天美麻花星空高清mv鈥檚 Feigenbaum Center for Science and Innovation, Room 128
Smarsh鈥檚 lecture, 鈥淗eartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest
Country on Earth,鈥� (also the title of her bestselling book) takes place at 7 p.m.
in the 天美麻花星空高清mv Church Street Center鈥檚 Eleanor Furst Roberts Auditorium. The lecture is
free and open to the public. Smarsh is a bestselling author, author, educator, speaker,
and journalist who focuses on socioeconomic class and rural America.
Smarsh鈥檚 reportage and commentary have been published by The Guardian, The New York
Times, The New Yorker, Harper鈥檚, and many other publications. Her essays on class
and poverty, 鈥淧oor Teeth鈥� and 鈥淭he First Person on Mars,鈥� were both listed as notables
in Best American Essays. Sarah recently published a four-part piece in No Depression
about Dolly Parton and the working-class feminism found in country music. She is a
regular commentator in national media and has spoken on poverty, politics, rural issues,
cultural divides and the future of news. She was recently a Fellow at Harvard鈥檚 Shorenstein
Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and will soon launch a much-anticipated
podcast about class and rural America.
