A Perimenopausal Blonde Walks Into a University...
Author Bio(s)
Writer and editor Carol Dowd-Forte is a graduate of Nova Southeastern University’s M.A. in Writing program, a former stringer for The Miami Herald, and president of A Girl’s Gotta Eat: Writing and Editing for a Price, LLC. She is founder of The Alley, a writers’ support group; has been an invited attendee of Yale University’s Summer Writers’ Conference and Workshop since its inception; and is currently working on two novels, one of which has the interest of a publisher she met through the Yale Conference. A tomboy when “female athlete” was an oxymoron, Dowd-Forte was one of the first female graduates of St. Thomas University’s Sports Administration Program (’82) and began her 30-year trek to overnight success in television sports. She’s done stand-up comedy, swam in Jeopardy!’s contestant pool, hates the color pink, and survived both the New York City public school and transit systems. Before becoming a writer, she was a fetus.
Talk Description
Writers know that it’s not always about one big moment. It’s about a series of smaller moments linked together as a narrative, both dramatic and subtle plot points which form an arc and move a story forward, so when the reader reaches The End, she looks back and says, “Ah, now I get it.” We also know how momentous it is to find your “voice” and how important that voice is to a writer’s life and process. Author George Eliot said, “It’s never too late to be what you might have been,” so I guess you can call this a “coming of middle age” tale.
Recommended Citation
Dowd-Forte, Carol, "A Perimenopausal Blonde Walks Into a University..." (2014). TEDxNSU. 2.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/tedxnsu/2
