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Writing Perugia

This Wednesday night students in Professor Cynthia Clough’s Creative Nonfiction Writing class presented some of their best essays that are to be included in the Umbra Institute’s ninth literary anthology. From a small stage at Perugia’s Birraio and with a crowd of more than thirty of their classmates, students read pieces that ranged from amusing reflections on their relationships with food to ponderings of the meaning of this semester, and the meaning of their fast-approaching departure. The night was rounded out by a reading from Professor Clough herself.