{"id":859,"date":"2024-07-23T21:15:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T02:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=859"},"modified":"2024-10-16T08:13:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T13:13:38","slug":"gerry-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2024\/gerry-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerry Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>author of <em>That Pinson Girl<\/em><\/strong><br><strong>Ephemera Prize Judge<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>October 25, 2:50 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gerry Wilson\u00a0appears at the symposium with her debut novel\u00a0<em>That Pinson Girl,\u00a0<\/em>the story of a single mother in north Mississippi at the time of the First World War. A native of Pontotoc near where the novel is set, Wilson is retired from her career as a high school teacher of English and creative writing. She now lives in Jackson, and she has previously published the collection\u00a0<em>Crosscurrents and Other Stories.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gerrygwilson.com\">author website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/07\/gwilson_lg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-889\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/07\/gwilson_lg.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/07\/gwilson_lg-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"615\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/07\/pinsongirl.jpg\" alt=\"cover of That Pinson Girl\" class=\"wp-image-897\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/07\/pinsongirl.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/07\/pinsongirl-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>author of That Pinson Girl<br \/>\nOctober 25, 2:50 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-31"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}