Dorothy Allison, winner of the 2007 Robert Penn Warren Award for fiction and author of several prizewinning books, gave a talk titled "Writers and Stories: Between the Imagination and the Page Is the World" April 18 in Gamble Auditorium.

Allison's visit to Mount Holyoke was sponsored by the Inclusiveness Initiative Fund of the Multicultural Community and College Life Committee, the Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts, the Department of English, the American Studies program, and the Gender Studies program.