Katherine Standefer and Neta Alexander in Conversation

Katherine Standefer is the author of Lightning Flowers: My Journey To Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life, which was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice/Staff Pick. Named one of Oprah Magazine’s Best Books of Fall 2020, Lightning Flowers was also featured on NPR’s Fresh Air. Prior writing appeared in The Best American Essays 2016. Standefer earned her MFA at the University of Arizona. She teaches for Ashland University’s Low-Residency MFA and lives on a piñon- and juniper-studded mesa in New Mexico with her chickens.

Neta Alexander is an Assistant Professor of Film & Media at Colgate University. Her public scholarship, encompassing topics such as the Internet of Medical Things, the limitations of technology, and life as a pacemaker-equipped patient, has been published in The Atlantic, Public Books, The Literary Review, Real Life Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and Haaretz. Her recent book, Failure, co-written with Arjun Appadurai, was published by Polity.

Co-sponsors: NYU Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity, and Strategic Innovation 

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