How to Use Creative Writing to Bear Witness | Sakinah Hofler | TEDxUCincinnati

In this talk, writer and doctoral student Sakinah Hofler discusses how we can use writing to bear witness: to see, capture, process, and analyze what is happening around us. She presents the tools and methods that allow us to bear witness and how, ultimately, the ability to bear witness can foster both small and large changes in our daily lives. Sakinah Hofler is an award-winning fiction writer and a PhD student in Creative Writing, Dept. of English and Comparative Literature, University of Cincinnati. Born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, she has won the Manchester Fiction Prize and the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award. Previously, her poetry has been shortlisted for the Manchester Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Mid-American Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Philadelphia Stories, and elsewhere. She was a 2015-2016 recipient of the Edward H. and Mary C. Kingsbury Fellowship at Florida State University. A former quality and chemical engineer for the United States Department of Defense, she is currently a PhD student and an Albert C. Yates Fellow at the University of Cincinnati. She’s an advocate for infusing the arts into our daily lives. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx