Photo by John Gregor
Andrea Gilats
Writer, educator, artist, and former yoga teacher Andrea (Andy) Gilats is the author of two books, After Effects: A Memoir of Complicated Grief and Restoring Flexibility: A Gentle Yoga-Based Practice to Increase Mobility at Any Age, as well as many articles and essays.
During her long career at the University of Minnesota, she cofounded and directed the legendary Split Rock Arts Program, a nationally renowned series of workshops in visual arts and creative writing.
She now devotes her time entirely to her writing, and is working on a memoir tentatively titled “After the Apogee of Life: A Memoir of Growing Old.”
Andrea Gilats
Writer, educator, artist, and former yoga teacher Andrea (Andy) Gilats is the author of two books, After Effects: A Memoir of Complicated Grief and Restoring Flexibility: A Gentle Yoga-Based Practice to Increase Mobility at Any Age, as well as many articles and essays.
During her long career at the University of Minnesota, she co-founded and directed the legendary Split Rock Arts Program, a nationally renowned series of workshops in visual arts and creative writing.
She now devotes her time entirely to her writing, and is working on a memoir tentatively titled “After the Apogee of Life: A Memoir of Growing Old.”
INTRODUCING
After Effects: A Memoir of Complicated Grief
An intensely moving and revelatory memoir of enduring and emerging from exceptional grief.
November 9, 2021
University of Minnesota Press
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INTRODUCING
After Effects: A Memoir of Complicated Grief
An intensely moving and revelatory memoir of enduring and emerging from exceptional grief.
November 9, 2021
University of Minnesota Press
Available for pre-order now!
pre-order from your nearest independent bookseller through indiebound
New Writing
Even trees whose leaves have turned permanently to gold and whose trunks are submerged in their pasts, still stand to meet the sun each morning.
My writing practice is the beating heart of my days, and I especially love focusing on the exhilarating challenges of book-length works.
That’s why I hope to use this space to share short excerpts from the books I am working on. These bits will be full of warts and vulnerabilities, but they will be written in the spirit of what is possible.
Eventually, they will be parts of cogent wholes, but for now, they are simply ways to offer you my new writing while it is still as rough around the edges as the writer herself.
Introducing After the Apogee of Life
I am currently working on a memoir tentatively titled “After the Apogee of Life: A Memoir of Growing Old.” To elaborate on the title’s meaning, I use a quotation from a 1991 book called A Fresh Map of Life: The Emergence of the Third Age by English sociologist Peter Laslett. He parses the human life cycle this way:
Photographer John Gregor tells us that this abandoned meander was once part of the Mississippi River. After a flood changed the course of the river, this former bend was cut off, creating a self-contained lake. That’s why it’s called an abandoned meander.
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