Many thanks to Art Stringer for sending news of the readings scheduled at Marshall University this spring:
Fiction writer Donald Ray Pollock
Reading: February 16 at 8:00 pm Shawkey Room (Memorial Student Center)
Donald Ray Pollock is the author of two books. His first book of short stories, Knockemstiff, won the 2009 PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Third Coast, The Journal, Sou’wester, River Styx, Boulevard, Folio, Granta, Washington Square, and The Berkeley Fiction Review. The Devil All the Time is his recently released first novel, praised in reviews by The New York Times, The Washington Post, the LA Times, and others. He works and teaches in Chillicothe, Ohio.
Distinguished writer Jayne Anne Phillips
Discussion: March 8 at 3:30 pm Shawkey Room (Memorial Student Center)
Reading: March 8 at 8:00 pm in the Booth Experimental Theater
Jayne Anne Phillips is the author of eight books, most recently the National Book Award Finalist, Lark and Termite. She was born and raised in West Virginia. Featured in Newsweek, Phillips’s first story collection, Black Tickets was lauded by Raymond Carver as a collection of “stories unlike any in our literature.” Nadine Gordimer has called her “the best short story writer since Eudora Welty.” Phillips’ first novel, Machine Dreams was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one of twelve Best Books of the Year.
Jayne Anne Phillips’ works have been translated and published in twelve languages. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Her work has appeared most recently in Harper’s, Granta, Doubletake, and the Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction. She has taught at Harvard University, Williams College, and Boston University, and is currently Professor of English and Director of the MFA Program at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey.
Poet Kathryn Kirkpatrick
Reading: April 5 at 8:00 pm in the Shawkey Room (Memorial Student Center)
Kathryn Kirkpatrick is the author of four collection of poems, most recently Unaccountable Weather. She is also the editor of Border Crossings: Irish Women Writers and National Identities (University of Alabama Press, 2000).
Her poems have appeared widely in such journals as Calyx, Carolina Quarterly, Cortland Review, Epoch, The Florida Review, The Hollins Critic, Kalliope, Shenandoah, The South Carolina Review, Southern Poetry Review, Sundog and other magazines. She teaches at Appalachian State University.
Visiting Writers Series readings are free and open to the public. The Series is supported by the Marshall English Department, the College of Liberal Arts, and the West Virginia Humanities Council.
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