Art of the Obituary

Join writer [and obituary lover] Patti See for a discussion on what makes obituary writing an artform. She’ll share some of her favorites and offer ideas for what to include in your own or your loved ones’ obits.

Patti See is an award-winning author whose work has appeared in Brevity, Salon Magazine, The Wisconsin Academy Review, The Southwest Review, HipMama, Inside HigherEd and many other magazines, journals and anthologies. She writers a monthly column for the Eau Claire Leader Telegram’s Sawdust Stories. Her essay collection about life in the Chippewa Valley, Here on Lake Hallie: In Praise of Barflies, Fix-it-Guys, and Other Folks in Our Hometown, was published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press in 2022.

Patti works as an Academic Advisor in the Advising, Retention & Career Center at UW-Eau Claire, and as a Senior Lecturer in the Honors Program and Women's Studies.