SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
The Creative Writer's Speaker Series Spring 2008
Melanie Rae Thon , March 6, 2008 Joe Mackall , March 27, 2008 Malena Mörling , April 24, 2008 |
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Thursday, March 6, 2008
The Smith Chapel, Worship Space, 6:00 p.m.
Melanie Rae Thon (fiction) is the author of the novels Sweet Hearts, Iona Moon and Meteors in August, and the short story collections First, Body and Girls in the Grass. In 1996 she was selected one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. She is currently Professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Utah.
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Thursday, March 27, 2008
The Smith Chapel, Worship Space, 6:00 p.m.
Joe Mackall (literary nonfiction) is author of Plain Secrets: An Outsider Among the Amish and The Last Street Before Cleveland. A professor of English and journalism at Ashland University, he is coeditor of the journal River Teeth and has written for NPR's Morning Edition, the Washington Post, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer, among other publications.
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
The Smith Chapel, Worship Space, 6:00 p.m.
Malena Mörling (poetry), assistant professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina,Wilmington, is the author of Astoria (University of Pittsburgh Press 2006) and Ocean Avenue, selected by Philip Levine for the New Issues Poetry Prize. She has translated works by the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, a selection of which appears in the collection, For the Living and the Dead. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times Book Review, New Republic, Ploughshares, New England Review, and Five Points.
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