Wednesday, September 17, 2008
RopeWalk begins with Holly Goddard Jones
 The fall 2008 RopeWalk Reading Series begins Thursday, September 18, with a reading by Holly Goddard Jones. Jones is the winner of the 2007 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, which carries a $25,000 cash prize. Her work has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Kenyon Review, Epoch, The Hudson Review, and The Southern Review. Her stories have appeared in Stories from the South 2008, Best American Mystery Stories 2008, and New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best. Jones was raised in Kentucky, which serves as the setting for much of her work. Her first story collection, Girl Trouble, will be published by Harper Perennial in September 2009. She is assistant professor in the Department of English and Philosophy at Murray State University. Here's the rest of the schedule: October 6 Kristine Rae Anderson is the 2007 Mary C. Mohr Poetry Award winner. Her poems have appeared in Crab Creek Review, Entelechy International, Phase and Cycle, the anthology Active Voices IV, and elsewhere. She has written book reviews recently published in Dotlit: The Online Journal of Creative Writing and Alehouse. In 2005 she was awarded a Tomales Bay Fellowship in poetry, and she was awarded a Fishtrap Fellowship for 2006. She teaches English at Riverside Community College in Riverside, California. October 14 Gary Fincke has published 16 books of poetry and short fiction, most recently Standing Around the Heart. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, The Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award in Poetry, Poetry magazine’s Bess Hokin Prize, the Rose Lefcowitz Prize from Poet Lore, and seven fellowships for creative writing from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. His work has appeared in Harper’s, Newsday, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, American Scholar, and Doubletake. Twice awarded Pushcart Prizes, his essay “The Canals of Mars” was reprinted in The Pushcart Essays, an anthology of the best nonfiction printed during the first 25 years of Pushcart Prize volumes. He is director of the Writers Institute and a professor of English and creative writing at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. Each reading will be held at 5 p.m. in Kleymeyer Hall in the Liberal Arts Center. A book signing will follow each program. Readings in the RopeWalk Series are free and open to the public. Publications by these authors are available for purchase at the USI Bookstore and Barnes and Noble Booksellers. For more information, call Nicole Reid, assistant professor of creative writing, at 812/464-1916. Presented by USI’s 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. Wendy Knipe Bredhold News & Information Services wkbredhold@usi.edu or 812/461-5259 |
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