Award-winning writer and faculty member to present in Griffin Center

The University of Southern Indiana will host the first of the fall 2019 Southern Indiana Reading Series on Thursday, September 26 with a reading by new USI English Department faculty member, Rosalie Moffett. The reading will begin at 4:30 p.m. at the USI Griffin Center, followed by a reception. Books will be available for purchase and for signing. This event is free and open to the public.

Rosalie Moffett is the author of Nervous System, chosen for the National Poetry Series by Monica Youn and just released with Ecco. She is also the author of June in Eden, winner of the Ohio State University Press/The Journal prize. She has been awarded the "Discovery"/Boston Review prize, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing from Stanford University, and scholarships from the Tin House and Bread Loaf writing workshops. Her poems and essays have appeared in Tin House, The Believer, FIELD, Narrative, Kenyon Review, Agni, Ploughshares, and other magazines, as well as in the anthology Gathered: Contemporary Quaker Poets. In August of 2019, Moffett was selected as winner of the Georgia Review's seventh annual Loraine Williams Poetry Prize for her poem "Giving Away the Dental Hygienist's Idea for a Patent." She joined USI in fall 2019 as an assistant professor of creative writing. More of Moffett's work can be found on her website www.rosaliemoffett.com.

The Southern Indiana Reading Series is made possible by the Indiana Arts Commission; the Vanderburgh Community Foundation Alliance; and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

For more information visit USI.edu/reading-series or contact Casey Pycior, assistant professor of English, at 812-228-5037 or cpycior@usi.edu.