Lone Mountain Readings

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Aaron Shurin & Micah Ballard

Location: USF lower campus, Maraschi Room, Fromm Hall

MFA in Writing Professor Aaron Shurin and Administrative Director Micah Ballard will be reading from and celebrating the release of their new collections of poetry published by City Lights Books.

Spring 2012 Lone Mountain Readings

Manuel Muñoz

Manuel Muñoz is the author of two collections of short stories, The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue and Zigzagger. His first novel, What You See in the Dark, will appear in paperback in spring 2012. A recipient of a Whiting Writers Award in 2008, Manuel was a finalist for the 2007 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the recipient of a 2009 O. Henry Prize for a short story. His work has aired on National Public Radio’s Selected Shorts.  

Emerging Writers Festival: Ye Chun, Laura van den Berg, Dave Madden, Wayne Miller, and Deb Olin Unferth

Ye Chun is the author of a book of poetry, Travel Over Water (Bitter Oleander Press, 2005), and a novel in Chinese, Peach Tree In The Sea (People’s Literature Publishing House, 2011). Her second collection of poetry, Lantern Puzzle, received Tupelo Press’ 2011 First/Second Book Award. Her translation of Hai Zi's poetry, Wheat Has Ripened, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press in 2012. She holds an MFA from the University of Virginia and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Missouri.

Laura van den Berg’s debut collection of stories, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, was a Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection, longlisted for The Story Prize, and shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Award. Her stories have appeared in Ploughshares, One Story, Conjunctions, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008, Best New American Voices 2010, and The Pushcart Prize XXIV. Laura currently lives in Baltimore, where she is teaching creative writing at Goucher College and completing a novel.

Dave Madden is the author of The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy (St. Martins, 2011). His shorter work has appeared in Tampa Review, HOBART, Indiana Review, Third Coast, and elsewhere, and he's the recipient of an AWP Intro Journals Award, a Sherwood Anderson Award, and a Tennessee Williams Scholarship at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of Alabama and is a co-editor of The Cupboard, a quarterly pamphlet of creative prose.

Thursday, March 29, 2012, 7:30 pm

Location: USF lower campus, Maraschi Room, Fromm Hall

Wayne Miller is the author of three poetry collections: The City, Our City (Milkweed, 2011), The Book of Props (2009), and Only the Senses Sleep (New Issues, 2006). He also translated Moikom Zeqo's I Don't Believe in Ghosts (BOA, 2007) and co-edited both New European Poets (Graywolf, 2008; w/Kevin Prufer) and Tamura Ryuichi: On the Life & Work of a 20th Century Master (Pleiades, 2011; w/Takako Lento). The recipient of six awards from the Poetry Society of America, the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry, and a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He lives in Kansas City and teaches at the University of Central Missouri, where he edits Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing (& Reviews).

Deb Olin Unferth is the author of the memoir Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the Sandinistas, a New York Times Critics’ Choice. She’s also written the story collection Minor Robberies and the novel Vacation, winner of the Cabell First Novel Award. Her work has been published in Harper’s, McSweeney’s, The Believer, the New York Times, the Boston Review, and elsewhere. She has received two Pushcart Prizes and a Creative Capital Grant for Innovative Literature. She teaches at Wesleyan University.

Carol Sklenicka

Carol Sklenicka is the author of the monumental biography Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life, named one of the "Best 10 Books of 2009" by The New York Times Book Review.  An award-winning short story writer herself, she is currently at work on a biography of the San Francisco novelist and short story writer Alice Adams.