The spring 2012 RopeWalk Visiting Writers Reading Series will continue with a reading by Kiki Petrosino at 5 p.m. on Thursday, March 1 in USI’s Carter Hall in University Center West. The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception and book signing.

Petrosino is the author of Fort Red Border and co-editor of Transom, an independent online poetry journal. Her poems have appeared in several publications, including FENCE, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, and Iowa Review. Petrosino holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Publications by Petrosino are available for purchase at the USI Bookstore and Barnes and Noble Booksellers. 

Presented by USI's College of Liberal Arts, the RopeWalk Visiting Writers Reading Series is made possible through the support of RopeWalk Writers Retreat, Southern Indiana Review, USI Society for Arts & Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, Indiana Arts Commission, and USI Student Writers Union.

For more information, contact Nicole Louise Reid, associate professor of English, at 812/464-1916.