Lone Mountain Readings

Videos and an archive of past Lone Mountain Readings

Fall 2013 Lone Mountain Readings

(Co-sponsored by the English Department)

Melanie Rae Thon

Melanie Rae Thon is the author of the novels The Voice of the River, Sweet Hearts, Meteors in August, and Iona Moon, and the story collections First, Body, Girls in the Grass, and In This Light: New and Selected Stories. Her work has appeared in the anthologies Best American Short Stories, Pushcart Prize, and O. Henry Prize Stories. She is a recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association Reading the West Book Award, the Gina Berriault Award, the Utah Book Award, and a Writer's Residency from the Lannan Foundation. Her fiction has been translated into French, Italian, German, Spanish, Croatian, Finnish, Japanese, and Farsi. Originally from Montana, she now lives in Salt Lake City, where she teaches in the Creative Writing and Environmental Humanities programs at the University of Utah.

Thomas Sayers Ellis

Thomas Sayers Ellis is the author of the chapbook The Genuine Negro Hero and the chaplet Song On. His first full collection of poems, The Maverick Room, was awarded the John C. Zacharis First Book Award. His poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Nation and Best American Poetry. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writer’s Award and has been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Fine Arts Work Center, and Yaddo. He teaches in the low-residency creative writing program at Lesley University and is on the faculty of Cave Canem. He co-founded The Dark Room Collective in Cambridge, Massachusetts, works as a photographer for UFCW Local 342 in New York City, and is the poetry editor of The Baffler. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and in Washington, D.C., in the summer.

For information about the reading series call (415) 422-6066 or email mfaw@usfca.edu. 

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