As impactful as setting can be on a short story, novel, memoir, or autobiography, the setting we know best is our hometown.Working from the author’s perspective of her own novelization of Herndon, Virginia, Dr. Whitener explores the details authors include and the ones we leave out when writing about our hometown. Get her novel that takes place in Herndon by clicking here.

This presentation aired live on June 11, 2020. Video premieres on Monday, June 29 at 10:30 a.m. Watch video.