Reading: Under the Radar Series: Writer Paul Shepherd
Venue: Biocomplexity Institute Conference Center, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free
Description:
The Under the Radar series of Virginia Tech presents Writer Paul Shepherd for a special reading and lecture in the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, room 145.
The event is free and open to the public.
Paul Shepherd is former Writer in Residence and Kingsbury Fellow at Florida State University, where he earned a PhD with distinction. He attended the University of Virginia, UNC-Chapel Hill, and UNC-Greensboro. His work has appeared in Crazyhorse, Fiction, Omni, Prairie Schooner, William and Mary Review, Folio, Pacific Review, US Catholic, St. Anthony Messenger, Portland Review, the Quarterly, Beloit Fiction, Maryland Review, and elsewhere. He has served as Senior Editor of International Quarterly, and as faculty advisor to award-winning college newspapers and literary magazines.
His novel More Like Not Running Away won the Mary McCarthy Award and was finalist for the Associated Writing Programs, the Bakeless, the Gardner, and twice for the James Jones prizes.
The Virginia Bioinformatics Institute is located along Duck Pond Drive and Washington Street.
For more information, visit: http://www.english.vt.edu/graduate/MFA/UnderRadar.html
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