Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Fall RopeWalk Visiting Writers Reading Series begins September 23
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Brandi Schwartz Marketing Coordinator Outreach & Engagement 812/464-1854 Erika Meitner Thursday, September 23 Kleymeyer Hall, USI's Liberal Arts Center Erika Meitner is an assistant professor of English at Virginia Tech in the Master of Fine Arts program. She is pursing a doctorate in Religious Studies at the University of Virginia where she was the Morgenstern Fellow in Jewish Studies and served on the Virginia Quarterly Review's Poetry Board. Meitner is the author of Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore, a finalist for the 2004 Paterson Poetry Prize Ideal Cities, winner of the 2009 National Poetry Series competition and Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls, which will be published next year. Andrew Porter Thursday, October 21 Carter Hall, USI's University Center Andrew Porter is an associate professor of creative writing at Trinity University and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in English from Vassar College and a Master of Fine Arts degree in fiction writing from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is the author of the short story collection, The Theory of Light and Matter, which won the 2007 Flannery O'Connor award for Short Fiction and Foreword Magazine's 2008 "Book of the Year" award for Short Fiction. His work has appeared in One Story, The Threepenny Review, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and many other publications. Porter is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including the 2004 W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Creative Arts from Vassar College, a James Michener-Paul Engle Fellowship from the James Michener/Copernicus Foundation, the Drake Emerging Writer Award from Drake University, and a Pushcart Prize. Anthony Varallo Thursday, November 18 Carter Hall, USI's University Center Anthony Varallo is an assistant professor of English at the College of Charleston, where he is the fiction editor for Crazyhorse. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa/Iowa Writers' Workshop and a doctorate from the University of Missouri-Columbia. His short story collection Out Loud, won the 2008 Drue Heinz Literature Prize and his first collection, This Day in History, won the 2005 John Simmons Short Fiction Award. Varallo is the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature and his stories have appeared in several publications including Gettysburg Review, New England Review, Epoch, Shenandoah, and Harvard Review. 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. Publications by these authors are available for purchase at the USI Bookstore and Barnes and Noble Booksellers. For more information, call Nicole Louise Reid, associate professor of English, at 812/464-1916. |
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