Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Fall 2006 RopeWalk Reading Series announced
 The Fall 2006 RopeWalk Reading Series features notable writers from Louisiana, Kansas, and Washington, D.C., reading from their work. All readings are free and open to the public and take place at 7 p.m. in Kleymeyer Hall in the Liberal Arts Center. Neil O'Boyle Connelly, September 21. Neil O'Boyle Connelly directs the McNeese State University MFA program in Creative Writing. His second novel, Buddy Cooper Finds a Way (Simon and Schuster, 2004), explores the connections between QVC, faith healing, divorce, asteroids, and professional wrestling, and was chosen by Amazon.com as a “Breakout Book.” St. Michael’s Scales (Arthur A. Levine, 2002), Connelly’s first book, was listed as “Best of the Best 2002” by Borders. His short fiction has appeared in The Yalobusha Review, The Southeast Review, and River City, which recently nominated his story, “The Adventures of Ultimate Man,” for a Pushcart Prize. Connelly and his wife Beth live in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Amy Fleury, October 19. Amy Fleury’s collection of poems, Beautiful Trouble, won the 2003 Crab Orchard First Book Award and was published by Southern Illinois University Press in 2004. It was named a top 10 notable book of 2004 by the Kansas City Star. Her poems have appeared in The American Life in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, North American Review, and The Southeast Review, among others. Her fiction has been published in 21st and The Yalobusha Review. Fleury has been a recipient of the Nadya Aisenberg Fellowship from the MacDowell Colony and a Kansas Arts Commission fellowship in poetry. She resides in Topeka, Kansas, where she is an associate professor of English at Washburn University. Judith Harris, November 16. Judith Harris grew up in the suburban area surrounding Washington, D.C., where her parents worked for the government. She studied English and studio arts at the University of Maryland and she earned her M.A. from the Brown University Creative Writing Program under the direction of Michael S. Harper. Harris is assistant professor of English at Catholic University. She received her doctorate in English in 1993 from George Washington University. She has also taught creative writing at George Mason University and George Washington University. The author of four collections of verse - The Bad Secret (2006), Atonement (2000), Song of the Moon (1983), and Poppies (1981) – she resides in Washington, D.C., with her husband, the artist Walter Kravitz, and their daughter Alani Jane. Authors will autograph their books following their readings. Publications by these authors are available to purchase at USI Bookstore and Barnes and Noble Booksellers. For more information, contact Jim McGarrah, assistant professor of English, 812/461-5381. Presented by the USI College of Liberal Arts, the RopeWalk 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. |
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