{"id":265,"date":"2022-09-28T12:04:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=265"},"modified":"2022-09-28T12:20:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:20:18","slug":"beth-kander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2020\/beth-kander\/","title":{"rendered":"Beth Kander"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"269\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/bkander_lg.jpg\" alt=\"Beth Kander\" class=\"wp-image-239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/bkander_lg.jpg 269w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/bkander_lg-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">author of the&nbsp;<strong><em>Original Syn Trilogy<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Saturday, October 24, 11:20 a.m.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Beth Kander will read from her sci-fi trilogy <em>Original Syn<\/em>. \u00a0In a not-too-distant future, humans have synthesized their bodies with technology, creating Syns, a race that is virtually immortal, while the Originals who spurned the singularity, struggle to survive outside Syn society and resist the eugenics aimed against them. Other titles in the series are\u00a0<em>Born in Syn<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Syn and Salvation, <\/em>scheduled for\u00a0release Oct. 15.Kander\u00a0is a graduate of The W\u2019s MFA in Creative Writing. Besides writing fiction, Kander is a celebrated playwright with six published playscripts, including <em>The Bottle Tree, Hazardous Materials,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>The Blue<\/em>. She has been the playwright in residence at the Ashland New Plays Festival, and her plays have been performed at New Stage Theatre, Fondren Theatre Workshop, and Stage Left Theatre, among many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bethkander.com\">Author Website<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forewordreviews.com\/reviews\/original-syn\/\">Book Review<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:51px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/OriginalSyn_lg.jpg\" alt=\"Original Syn cover\" class=\"wp-image-293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/OriginalSyn_lg.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/OriginalSyn_lg-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>author of the Original Syn Trilogy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}