Friday, April 09, 2010
Wilkinson to present RopeWalk Reading on April 15
Contact for more information:
Brandi Schwartz Marketing Coordinator Outreach & Engagement 812/464-1854 Wilkinson is the author of Blackberries, Blackberries, winner of the 2002 Chaffin Award for Appalachian Literature, and Water Street, a finalist for both the UK's Orange Prize for Fiction and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Kentucky Foundation for Women, the Kentucky Arts Council, the Mary Anderson Center for the Arts, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. In 2008, Wilkinson won the Denny Plattner Award in poetry from Appalachian Heritage Magazine. Raised in Indian Creek, Kentucky, Wilkinson currently teaches writing and literature in the BFA program in creative writing at Morehead State University. She has also taught in the MFA writing programs at Spalding University and Indiana University-Bloomington. A reception and book signing will follow the reading. 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 Louise Reid, associate professor of English, at 812/464-1916. |
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