Penn State Altoona’s Intro to Writing Speaker Series will offer a presentation by Amy Packard Ferro on Wednesday, March 23, from 11:15 a.m. to 12:05 p.m. The series features six professionals in a variety of careers who write and study writing offering brief lectures throughout the spring 2022 semester.

With over 15 years of book publicity experience, Ferro has worked at four different publishing houses promoting serious nonfiction books including Barricade Books, Encounter Books, and Oxford University Press. Ferro is currently the senior publicist at Oxford University Press and works from her home office in Pennsylvania.

The speaker series is offered through the Intro to Writing Studies course, which builds students’ rhetorical skills in critical and creative genres of writing and introduces them to how they can be used in future careers.

Anyone wishing to attend any of these Zoom-based events should contact Assistant Professor of English Kyle King at kyle.king@psu.edu for more information. The series of guest speakers is sponsored by the English program and Penn State Altoona’s Division of Arts and Humanities.