Nagasaki: August 9, 1945, 11:02AM | The Human Cost of the World's Second Atomic Bombing, and What We Can Learn From It

Susan Southard is the author of Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War (Penguin, 2016), winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and featured A Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, The Economist, The American Library Association, and Kirkus Review.

Ms Southard's presentation will focus on the experiences of five individuals, all victims of the atomic bombing, whom she interviewed over a period of twelve years. Through their experiences, she will describe the human cost of the bombing, the struggles of survivors to rebuild their lives, and the global activism of hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors).

Susan Southard holds an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University, Los Angeles, and was a nonfiction fellow at the Norman Mailer Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Southard's work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Politico, and Lapham's Quarterly. She has taught nonfiction classes at Arizona State University's Piper Writers Studio and the University of Georgia, and directed creative writing programs for incarcerated youth and at a federal prison for women outside Phoenix. Southard is the founder and artistic director of Essential Theatre.

Refreshments will be served.