Monday, September 14, 2009
Fall Visiting Writers Reading Series begins September 24
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Contact for more information:
Wendy Knipe Bredhold Media Relations Specialist, News & Information Services 812/461-5259 Here's the schedule: Lee Martin, September 24 Lee Martin is the author of three novels, including The Bright Forever, a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. He also has published two memoirs, From Our House and Turning Bones, and a short story collection, The Least You Need To Know. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Harper's, Ms., Creative Nonfiction, The Georgia Review, Story, DoubleTake, The Kenyon Review, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, The Southern Review, and Glimmer Train. He is the winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council. He teaches in the MFA Program at The Ohio State University. Brett Eugene Ralph, October 15 Brett Eugene Ralph spent the better part of his youth in Louisville, Kentucky, playing football and singing in punk rock bands. He is author of Black Sabbatical (Sarabande, 2007) and his work has appeared in publications such as Conduit, Mudfish, Willow Springs, and The American Poetry Review, and his poems have been anthologized in The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets and The Stiffest of the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader. He has taught at the University of Massachusetts, Missouri State University, and the Central Institute of Buddhist Studies in the Himalayas of northern India. Currently, he lives in Empire, Kentucky, and teaches at Hopkinsville Community College. His country rock ensemble, Brett Eugene Ralph's Kentucky Chrome Revue, can be heard in seedy dives throughout the South. XX Eccentric Women, October 29 Six contributing authors will read from their short stories in XX Eccentric: Stories About the Eccentricities of Women, the latest anthology published by Main Street Rag. Award-winning novelists and short story authors, C. Jane Bradley, Amy Locklin, Molly McCaffrey, Nicole Louise Reid, Kathryn Shaver, and Josh Woods will share the stage for an evening of eccentricity. Lili Wright, November 12 Lili Wright worked as a newspaper reporter for 10 years before she earned her MFA in creative nonfiction from Columbia University. She is author of the travel memoir, Learning to Float: The Journey of a Woman, a Dog, and Just Enough Men (Broadway, 2002). Her essays and journalism have appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, Esquire, The Chicago Tribune, Maize, Grand Tour and other publications. She teaches writing at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, where she lives with her husband and two children. Her essay, "Pilgrim," excerpted from a work-in-progress called Mother at Sea, won the 2009 Southern Indiana Review Mary C. Mohr Nonfiction Award. The readings are free and open to the public. Publications by these authors are available to purchase at USI Bookstore and Barnes & 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, call Nicole Reid, assistant professor of creative writing, at 812/464-1916. |
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