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Writer to Writer (Author Interviews): Kitty Oliver: Telling Your Story of Diversity

FCCJ series of full length video interviews on the topic of writing
Author Kitty Oliver
Title Telling Your Story of Diversity
Interviewer Margo Martin
Producer Kathleen Clower
Director Mark Basse

Copyright 2002 Florida Community College at Jacksonville

Summary:

Formerly a staff writer for the Miami Herald, author and memoirist Kitty Oliver currently teaches English as the Writer in Residence at Florida Atlantic University. Oliver, who has been writing since her grade school days and has worked in a variety of media including journals, television scripts, and documentaries, has recently begun creating oral histories. In this interview she discusses her book Multicolored Memories of a Black Southern Girl, and reads a selection from her essay “Jambalaya.”

Episode #: ?

Keywords:

Oral Historian

Memoirist

Cultural Studies

Oliver, K. (2002). Interviewed by Margo Martin [Video Recording]. Telling Your Story of Diversity, Writer to Writer. YouTube, Jacksonville, Florida.

Run time: 27 minutes