Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Mohr Award winner to present final RopeWalk Reading
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Dana Kinstler, winner of Southern Indiana Review's 2006 Mary C. Mohr Short Fiction Award, will present the final fall 2007 RopeWalk Reading at 7 p.m. November 8 in Kleymeyer Hall in the Liberal Arts Center. Southern Indiana Review is USI’s literary journal. Kinstler won first prize for her short story, “Decadence,” which appears along with the other winners in the spring 2007 issue. English major Chris Dickens, associate editor of Southern Indiana Review, interviewed Kinstler for the Southern Indiana Review Web site. Mark Lindensmith won second prize for “Forms of Life – Kansas, 1957,” and Marika Lindholm won third prize for “Fall Seven Times, Stand Up Eight.” Kinstler has published short stories in a number of literary magazines and journals. Recently, her essays have appeared in My Father Married Your Mother: Writers Talk about Stepparents, Stepchildren, and Everyone in Between; Mr. Wrong; Stella Magazine; and the London Telegraph. She earned her MFA from Bennington College Writing Seminars and lives in the Hudson River Valley, New York, with her husband and two daughters. The fall 2007 Southern Indiana Review features the artwork of Rob Millard-Mendez, assistant professor of art, and is available for purchase online at the SIR Web site. For more information about the reading, call Nicole Reid, co-director of the RopeWalk Reading Series, at 812/464-1916. Presented by the USI College of Liberal Arts, the RopeWalk Reading Series is made possible through the support of RopeWalk Writers Retreat, the Southern Indiana Review, USI Society for Arts & Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, Indiana Arts Commission, and USI Student Writers’ Union. Wendy Knipe Bredhold News and Information Services wkbredhold@usi.edu 812/461-5259 |
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