AIM Lab lecture series
Speaker
Sam Meekings
Sam Meekings is Director of the Liberal Arts Program and Associate Professor in Residence of Creative Writing at Northwestern University in Qatar. He is also an internationally-renowned poet and novelist, and a scholar of creative practices and processes with a special focus on digital and trauma-informed creative writing.
His latest book, Wonder and Loss: A Practical Memoir for Writing About Grief, is both a deeply personal memoir and a critical analysis of narratological and psychological theories on how we process grief which outlines the transformative impact storytelling can have on the bereaved.
