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The Millsaps Visiting Writers Series, curated by Assistant Professor of English Dr. Steve Kistulentz, brings to campus outstanding writers from a broad spectrum of experience and talent. Each visit features a craft talk or lecture, followed by a public reading.
All events are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Dr. Kistulentz at 601-974-1305, writers@millsaps.edu
Thursday, February 21, 7pm
Gertrude C. Ford Academic Complex, Room 215
Dubbed by one critic as the "best living American writer," Robert Olen Butler is the author of numerous novels and short story collections. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (2001) won the Pulitzer Prize: the 15 stories capture the voices of Vietnamese immigrants who have lost their homeland and are trying to adapt to an alien culture. A Small Hotel (2012) is a beautifully told story of love, loss, and redemption. Butler's other novels are: The Alleys of Eden, Sun Dogs, Countrymen of Bones, On Distant Ground, Wabash,The Deuce, They Whisper, The Deep Green Sea, Mr. Spaceman, Fair Warning, and Hell. His volumes of short fiction include: Tabloid Dreams, Had a Good Time, Severance, Intercourse, and Weegee Stories. He has also published a volume of his lectures on the creative process, From Where You Dream, edited with an introduction by Janet Burroway.
Butler's next book, The Hot Country, begins The Christopher Marlowe Cobb thriller series, and was published fall 2012 by Otto Penzler's The Mysterious Press at Grove/Atlantic. It is told in the voice of a swashbuckling early 20th century American newspaper war correspondent, whose voice Butler created for the story "The One in White" in Had a Good Time. Printed in the Atlantic Monthly, that story won (along with the Atlantic) a National Magazine Award in fiction. The Hot Country is set in Mexico in April and May of 1914, during that country's civil war and the American invasion of Vera Cruz. The second novel in the series will be published in the fall of 2013.
A recipient of both a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction and a National Endowment for the Arts grant, he also won the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. He has twice won a National Magazine Award in Fiction and has received two Pushcart Prizes. His stories have appeared widely in such publications as The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Zoetrope, The Paris Review, The Hudson Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, and The Sewanee Review. They have also been chosen for inclusion in four annual editions of The Best American Short Stories, eight annual editions of New Stories from the South, several other major annual anthologies, and numerous college literature textbooks from such publishers as Simon & Schuster, Norton, Viking, Little Brown & Co., Houghton Mifflin, Oxford University Press, Prentice Hall, and Bedford/St.Martin and most recently in The New Granta Book of the American Short Story, edited by Richard Ford.
Tyrone Jaeger is the author of the hybrid novel The Runaway Note. Jaeger's work has been published in The Oxford American, West Branch Wired, The Literary Review, Southern Humanities Review, and many others. He writes an online column, A State of Wonder: Notes from the Upland South, for The Oxford American. Jaeger is a graduate of the PhD program in creative writing at the University of Nebraska. Since 2008, he has been on the faculty of Hendrix College in Conway, Ark., where he is an assistant professor of English/Creative Writing.
This reading is part of Workshopping the Workshop, a two-day discussion of creative writing teaching practices. Read more information on this discussion.
Presented by the Millsaps Forums
Friday, February 22, 12:30pm
Gertrude C. Ford Academic Complex, Room 215
Douglas C. Houchens Professor of English at Davidson College, Alan Michael Parker has written three novels, Cry Uncle, Whale Man (WordFarm, 2011) and The Committee on Town Happiness (Dzanc Books, 2014), along with seven collections of poems: Days Like Prose, The Vandals, Love Song with Motor Vehicles, A Peal of Sonnets, Elephants & Butterflies, Ten Days (with painter Herb Jackson), and Long Division (Tupelo Press, June, 2012). He served as Editor ofThe Imaginary Poets, and co-editor of two other volumes of scholarship. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Paris Review, Pleiades,and The Yale Review, among other magazines, and in 2011 were anthologized in The Best American Poetry as well as The Pushcart Prize; his prose has appeared in journals including The Believer, The New York Times Book Review,and The New Yorker.
Alan Michael Parker has received numerous awards and fellowships, including three Pushcart Prizes, the Fineline Prize from the Mid-American Review, and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America; his 2011 novel, Whale Man, was a finalist for the 2011 ForeWord Reviews's "Book of the Year Award" in the category of Literary Fiction.
Since 1998, Alan Michael Parker has taught at Davidson College, where he was promoted to the rank of Full Professor in 2007; in 2012, he was awarded the Douglas C. Houchens Professorship in English. He is also a Core Faculty Member in the Queens University low-residency M.F.A. program. He lives in Davidson, NC with his wife, the artist Felicia van Bork.
Sheryl St. Germain's poetry books include Making Bread at Midnight, How Heavy the Breath of God, The Journals of Scheherazade, and Let it Be a Dark Roux: New and Selected Poems. A memoir Swamp Songs: the Making of an Unruly Woman, was published in 2003, and she co-edited, with Margaret Whitford, Between Song and Story: Essays for the Twenty-First Century. Her most recent book, Navigating Disaster: Sixteen Essays of Love and a Poem of Despair, was released in September of 2012. She directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at Chatham University.
This reading is part of Workshopping the Workshop, a two-day discussion of creative writing teaching practices. Read more information on this discussion.
Thursday, March 28, 7pm
Gertrude C. Ford Academic Complex, Room 215
Jehanne Dubrow is the author of four poetry collections, including most recently Red Army Red and Stateside (Northwestern UP, 2012 and 2010). Her work has appeared in Southern Review, Crazyhorse, Prairie Schooner, and Ploughshares. She is the Director of the Rose O'Neill Literary House and an assistant professor in creative writing at Washington College, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Thursday, January 31, 4:30pm
Gertrude C. Ford Academic Complex, Room 215
Novelist Ann Patchett will be the 2013 Eudora Welty Visiting Lecturer in Humanities and will read from her latest novel State of Wonder.
The Welty Lecture was established in 1982 for the purpose of bringing to the college distinguished scholars, writers, artists and critics who have made significant contributions to the understanding and appreciation of southern culture. The endowment honors Eudora Welty, the distinguished writer and lifelong resident of Jackson, who for many years served on the Board of Trustees of Millsaps College. Welty was a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the French Legion of Honor. Notable writers and scholars such as Cleanth Brooks, John Shelton Reed, Ellen Douglas and Clyde Edgerton have visited Millsaps as part of the Welty Lecture program.
Patchett is the author of six novels: the New York Times bestsellers State of Wonder and Run; The Patron Saint of Liars, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; Taft, which won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize; The Magician's Assistant; and Bel Canto, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Orange Prize, the BookSense Book of the Year, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the author of two works of nonfiction: the New York Times bestselling Truth & Beauty and What Now? Patchett has written for many publications, including The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, Gourmet, The New York Times, Vogue, and The Washington Post. She lives in Nashville and was recently listed by Time as one of the World's 100 Most Influential People.
Thursday, February 7, 7pm
Boyd Campbell College Center, Leggett Center A&B
Matt Bondurant is the author of three novels, The Third Translation (Hyperion 2005), The Wettest County in the World (Scribner 2008), and The Night Swimmer (Scribner 2012), as well as numerous published stories, poems, essays, and reviews. He was born and raised in Alexandria, Virginia. He received his B.A. and M.A. in English from James Madison University, then went on to earn a PhD in English - Creative Writing from Florida State University.
In 2012, his second novel, The Wettest County was adapted into the film Lawless directed by John Hillcoat (The Road) and starring Shia Labeouf, Tom Hardy, Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska, Gary Oldman, and Guy Pearce.
Matt's short fiction has appeared in journals such as Prairie Schooner, The New England Review, and Glimmer Train, among others, and in 2008 he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Matt's poetry was recently featured in Ninth Letter, The Notre Dame Review, and other journals, as well as anthologized in Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft, the most widely adopted creative writing text in America. His reviews and essays have appeared in journals such as The Southeast Review and The Northern Virginia Review, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
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