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SUMMARY:Award-Winning Writer Maria Dahvana Headley to Speak at Dominican Un
 iversity
LOCATION:Dominican University Martin Recital Hall 7900 W. Division St. Rive
 r Forest\, IL
DESCRIPTION:Dominican University will welcome fantasy author\, poet\, playw
 right and translator Maria Dahvana Headley as the featured speaker for the
  university’s 2026 Lund-Gill Lecture. Headley will present “The Writte
 n Word: How Old Stories Help Us to Understand Our Lives” on Tuesday\, Ap
 ril 14 at 6 p.m. in Dominican’s Martin Recital Hall\, located inside the
  Performing Arts Center at 7900 W. Division St. in River Forest. Headley i
 s an award-winning\, New York Times bestselling author of eight books\, in
 cluding Beowulf: A New Translation\, a reimagination of the Old English ep
 ic with modern language\, giving the poem a contemporary feel amid a fanta
 stical Anglo-Saxon world. This book was the winner of the Harold Morton La
 ndon Translation Prize from the Academy of American Poets. “My whole car
 eer has been grabbing bits of folklore and repurposing them\, and testing 
 out different meters and repurposing them. That’s the writer I am\,” H
 eadley told Slate in a 2020 interview. Headley is also the author of The M
 ere Wife\, a contemporary novel adaptation of Beowulf set in present-day N
 ew York\; the young adult fantasy novel Magonia and its sequel\, Aerie\; Q
 ueen of Kings: A Novel of Cleopatra\, the Vampire\; a musical adaptation o
 f The Aeneid\, titled Vergil: A Mythological Musical\; and the light-heart
 ed memoir\, The Year of Yes. Headley is a 2020 World Fantasy Award winner 
 and she delivered the Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature at Oxford in 2
 023. This year\, Headley is serving as Dominican University’s 2025-26 Lu
 nd-Gill Chair. Each year\, the selected chair is invited to address themes
  and issues at the heart of the liberal arts and sciences and at the inter
 section of academia and society. The Lund-Gill Lecture is open to the publ
 ic and free to attend\, but registration is required. Visit https://www.do
 m.edu/arts-minds/university-events to register. Fees & registration detail
 s Free\; register at https://www.dom.edu/arts-minds/university-events.\n\n
 https://www.oprfchamber.org/events/94273
URL:https://www.oprfchamber.org/events/94273
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