ZELL VISITING WRITERS SERIES

These events are primarily sponsored by the Department of English and the Office of the Provost of the University of Michigan.

All events are free and open to the public. The Helmut Stern Auditorium is located on the ground floor of the University of Michigan's Museum of Art (UMMA) 525 South State Street on the U-M's Central Campus. Addresses for other venues will be listed below those particular events.

Fall, 2009

Dean Young Poetry Reading
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Dean Young has published ten books of poetry, recently Elegy on Toy Piano, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and Primitive Mentor. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, two from the National endowment for the Arts as well as an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has taught in the low-residency MFA program at Warren Wilson College and was on the permanent faculty at the Iowa Writers' Workshop until becoming the William Livingston Chair of Poetry at the University of Texas at Austin in 2008. A book on poetics, The Art of Recklessness will be published in 2009. This readnig by Dean Young is our Fall 2009 Janey Lack Reading.
Time: 5:00PM
Location: UMMA Helmut Stern Auditorium
Website: https://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp
Contact: spnorton@umich.edu

Steve Stern Fiction Reading
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Steve Stern is the author of several works of fiction, including the story collections Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven and The Wedding Jester, and the novel The Angel of Forgetfulness. His books have received a Pushcart Writer's Choice Award, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish American Fiction, and the National Jewish Book Award, and his short fiction has appeared in the Pushcart and O.Henry Prize anthologies. He has been the recipient of a Fulbright and a Guggenheim fellowship, and is currently a writer-in-residence at Skidmore College. His novel, The Frozen Rabbi, is forthcoming next spring from Algonquin Press.
Time: 5:00PM
Location: UMMA Helmut Stern Auditorium
Website: https://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp
Contact: spnorton@umich.edu

Crystal Williams Poetry Reading
Thursday, October 08, 2009
Crystal Williams’ third collection of poems, Troubled Tongues, was chosen by Marilyn Nelson for the 2009 Long Madgett Poetry Award, is a finalist for the 2009 Oregon Book Award and was short-listed for the Idaho Prize. Her poetry appears in the American Poetry Review, 5AM, Callaloo, Court Green, Luna, Fourth River, The Indiana Review, and in the anthologies: American Poetry: The Next Generation, Poetry Nation, Sweet Jesus, and Beyond the Frontier, among others. Raised in Detroit, Michigan and Madrid, Spain, she is currently working on two plays and a collection of essays. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from New York University and a Master of Fine Arts from Cornell University.
Time: 5:00PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Website: https://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu

Poetry and the Body
Wednesday, October 14, 2009

A group reading by Amy Carroll, Julie Ellison, Laurence Goldstein, Linda Gregerson, Tung-Hui Hu, Susan Hutton, A. Van Jordan, Megan Sue Levad, Thomas Lynch, Raymond McDaniel, Thylias Moss, Benjamin Paloff, Macklin Smith, Keith Taylor, and Gillian White.

Curated by Linda Gregerson, the Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor of English Language and Literature.

Time: 7:00PM
Location: Rackham Amphitheatre
Website: http://www.artsonearth.org/artsbodies/abcalendar.php
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu

David Wevill Poetry Reading
Thursday, October 15, 2009
David Wevill was born a Canadian in Japan in 1935, and was educated in both Canada and England. He has lived in Burma and in Spain but has made his home in Austin, Texas for the past thirty years. While resident in England in the 1960s and 1970s, he established a substantial reputation as a poet, publishing four volumes between 1964 and 1974. He won prizes, was represented in all the major anthologies, and was included in the renowned Penguin Modern Poets series before his first full collection appeared. With his move across the Atlantic, he fell from view in Britain, although his work continued to be published in his native Canada. His main publications are: Birth of a Shark (1964), A Christ of the Ice-floes (1966), Firebreak (1971), Where the Arrow Falls (1973), Other Names for the Heart (1985), Figure of Eight (1987), Child Eating Snow (1994), Solo With Grazing Deer (2001), Departures: Selected Poems (2003), and Asterisks (2007). He has also published translations of Fernando Pessoa and Ferenc Juhász. David Wevill teaches English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Texas, Austin.
Time: 5:00PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Website: https://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu

Travis Holland and Scott Lasser Fiction Reading
Thursday, October 22, 2009

Scott Lasser is the author of three novels: Battle Creek, All I Could Get, and The Year That Follows. His non-fiction has appeared in magazines ranging from Dealmaker (for which he wrote a regular book column) to the New Yorker. He holds degrees from Dartmouth College (BA), the University of Michigan (MFA), and the Wharton School (MBA). He lives with his family in Aspen, Colorado.

Travis Holland is the author of The Archivist's Story, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writer's selection. In 2007, The Archivist's Story was listed among the best books of the year by Publisher's Weekly and the Financial Times, and was a Guardian Readers’ Pick. He is the winner of the 2008 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and has been short-listed for the 2009 Impac Dublin prize. A graduate of the University of Michigan's MFA program, his stories have previously appeared in Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, Five Points, and The Quarterly.

Time: 5:00PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Website: https://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu

Patricia Hampl Nonfiction Reading
Thursday, November 05, 2009

Patricia Hampl’s most recent book is The Florist’s Daughter, winner of numerous “best” and “year end” awards, including the New York Times “100 Notable Books of the Year” and the 2008 Minnesota Book Award for Memoir and Creative Nonfiction. Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime, published in 2006 and now in paperback, was also one of the Times Notable Books; a portion was chosen for The Best Spiritual Writing 2005. Patricia Hampl first won recognition for A Romantic Education, her memoir about her Czech heritage, awarded a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship. This book and subsequent works have established her as an influential figure in the rise of autobiographical writing in the past 25 years. She is the author as well of two collections of poetry, Woman before an Aquarium, and Resort and Other Poems. And she has published Spillville, a meditation on Antonin Dvorak's 1893 summer in Iowa, with engravings by Steven Sorman.

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Time: 5:15PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Website: https://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu

Allan Gurganus Fiction Reading
Monday, November 09, 2009
Allan Gurganus, a North Carolina native, is the author of Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy) White People (Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Pen-Faulkner Finalist), Plays Well with Others and The Practical Heart: Four Novellas (Lambda Literary Award). His stories have won the National Magazine Prize and the O’Henry Award. They are seen in “Best American Stories” and “The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction.” His political editorials frequently appear in “The New York Times.” His leftward politics have made him a commentator on the “Lehrer News Hour” and NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Gurganus recently appeared in the PBS “American Masters” series as a scholar-reader for “Walt Whitman, An American.” Gurganus has taught literature and fiction writing at Duke, The Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Stanford and Sarah Lawrence. John Cheever wrote, “I consider Allan Gurganus the most technically gifted and morally responsive writer of his generation.”
Time: 5:00PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Website: https://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu

Allan Gurganus Q&A Roundtable
Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Q&A roundtable discussion with Allan Gurganus, hosted by Nicholas Delbanco.

Allan Gurganus, a North Carolina native, is the author of Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy) White People (Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Pen-Faulkner Finalist), Plays Well with Others and The Practical Heart: Four Novellas (Lambda Literary Award). His stories have won the National Magazine Prize and the O. Henry Award. They are seen in Best American Stories and The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. His political editorials frequently appear in The New York Times. His leftward politics have made him a commentator on the Lehrer News Hour and NPR’s All Things Considered. Gurganus recently appeared in the PBS American Masters series as a scholar-reader for “Walt Whitman, An American.” Gurganus has taught literature and fiction writing at Duke, The Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Stanford and Sarah Lawrence. John Cheever wrote, “I consider Allan Gurganus the most technically gifted and morally responsive writer of his generation.”

Time: 2:00PM
Location: Hopwood Room, 1176 Angell Hall
Website: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu

Allan Gurganus Lecture: "The Fiction of History: And Vice-Versa"
Thursday, November 12, 2009

Time: 5:00PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Website: https://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu

Kevin Brockmeier Fiction Reading
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Kevin Brockmeier is the author of the novels The Brief History of the Dead and The Truth About Celia, the children's novels City of Names and Grooves: A Kind of Mystery, and the story collections Things That Fall from the Sky and The View from the Seventh Layer. His work has been translated into fifteen languages. He has published stories in The New Yorker, The Georgia Review, McSweeney's, Zoetrope, The Oxford American, The Best American Short Stories, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and New Stories from the South. He has received the Borders Original Voices Award, the Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Award, an Italo Calvino Short Fiction Award, a James Michener-Paul Engle Fellowship, three O. Henry Awards (one, a first prize), the PEN USA Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an NEA Grant. Recently he was named one of Granta magazine's Best Young American Novelists. He lives in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he was raised.
Time: 5:00PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Website: http://lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu

Donald Hall, Day With(out) Art Lecture
Tuesday, December 01, 2009

In a review of Hall's recent Selected Poems, Billy Collins wrote in the Washington Post: "Hall has long been placed in the Frostian tradition of the plainspoken rural poet... It is a kind of simplicity that succeeds in engaging the reader in the first few lines." Donald Hall has published numerous books of poetry, most recently White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006 (2006); The Painted Bed (2002) and Without: Poems (1998), which was published on the third anniversary of his wife and fellow poet Jane Kenyon's death from leukemia. Other notable collections include The One Day (1988), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a Pulitzer Prize nomination; The Happy Man (1986), which won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; and Exiles and Marriages (1955), which was the Academy's Lamont Poetry Selection for 1956. He has also received numerous awards including two Guggenheims.

Since the first Day With(out) Art on December 1, 1989, it has grown into an international collaboration in which thousands of organizations acknowledge the devastating toll that HIV and AIDS have taken on the world wide creative and performing arts communities. As a museum devoted to fostering and presenting creative expression and to preserving cultural memory, UMMA has long been committed to participation in this worldwide event.

This program is cosponsored by UMMA and the MFA in Creative Writing Program of the UM Department of English.

Time: 5:15PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Website: http://www.umma.umich.edu/programs-and-tours/zell.html
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu

Tracy Daugherty and Marjorie Sandor Reading
Thursday, December 03, 2009

Marjorie Sandor is the author of two story collections—Portrait of My Mother, Who Posed Nude in Wartime and A Night of Music—and a memoir, The Night Gardener: A Search For Home. She has published work in The Georgia Review, The Southern Review and The New York Times Magazine, and her writing has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories. She has received a Pushcart Prize, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award for Fiction, the Oregon Book Award and the National Jewish Book Award.

Tracy Daugherty is the author of Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme, the short story collections It Takes a Worried Man and The Woman in the Oil Field, and the novels The Boy Orator, What Falls Away and Desire Provoked. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, McSweeney's, and The Georgia Review, and he has received fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation. Once a student of Donald Barthelme's, he is now Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at Oregon State University.

Time: 5:15PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Website: https://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu

Piotr Sommer Poetry Reading
Monday, December 07, 2009
Piotr Sommer is a poet, translator, anthology editor and essayist. Born in 1948, he grew up in Otwock, a small town outside of Warsaw, studied English at the University of Warsaw, and now edits Literatura na Świecie (literature in the world), a Polish magazine of international writing. He taught poetry at several American universities, including Amherst College, Wesleyan University, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, and University of Richmond, Virginia, has been awarded several prizes and fellowships, and has published twelve books of poetry in Polish (including Pamiątki po nas, Kolejny świat, Czynnik liryczny, Nowe stosunki wyrazów, Piosenka pasterska, Rano na ziemi. Wiersze z lat 1968 – 1998, Dni i noce and Wiersze ze słów) as well as two books of essays on poetry and translation (Smak detalu i inne ogólniki and Po stykach). He is also the author of numerous translations from American, English and Irish poetry, and has had two collections published in translation: Things to Translate and Other Poems, and Ein freier Tag in April, which have appeared in German, Slovak, Slovenian, and English.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature and the Copernicus Endowment.

Time: 5:15PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Website: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu

Winter, 2010

Carol Ann Duffy In Residence (poetry reading)
Monday, January 11, 2010
Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, England, where she is Professor and Creative Director of The Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has written for both children and adults, and her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread and Forward Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. In 2005, she won the T. S. Eliot Prize for Rapture. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Great Britain in 2009.

A public reception in the UMMA Commons will immediately follow the reading.

Time: 5:15PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Website: https://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu

Carol Ann Duffy In Residence (lecture)
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, England, where she is Professor and Creative Director of The Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has written for both children and adults, and her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread and Forward Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. In 2005, she won the T. S. Eliot Prize for Rapture. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Great Britain in 2009.
Time: 5:15PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Website: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu

Cole Swensen poetry reading
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Cole Swensen is the author of twelve books of poetry; the most recent is Ours (U. of California, 2008), which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Other volumes have won the Iowa Poetry Prize, the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award, Sun & Moon's New American Writing Award, and the National Poetry Series. She is also the co-editor of the 2009 Norton anthology American Hybrid and a translator of French poetry, prose, and art criticism. Her translation of Jean Fremon's Island of the Dead won the 2004 PEN Award in Literary Translation, and she has received grants from the Association Beaumarchais and the French Centre du Livre. A 2006 Guggenheim Fellow, Swensen teaches at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Time: 5:15PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Website: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu

Linda Gregerson, Distinguished University Professor Inaugural Lecture
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Linda Gregerson, Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor of English, inaugural lecture (poetry reading). Sponsored by the Office of University and Development Events. Rackham Amphitheatre. Reception to follow in the Rackham Assembly Hall.
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Rackham Amphitheatre and Assembly Hall
Contact: "Ashley, Julie" <ashleyj@umich.edu>

Adam Haslett fiction reading
Thursday, February 04, 2010
Adam Haslett's short story collection, You Are Not a Stranger Here, was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. It has been translated into fifteen languages. He lives in New York.
Time: 5:15PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Website: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu

John Burnside poetry reading
Thursday, February 11, 2010
John Burnside has published eleven collections of poetry, including Feast Days (1992), winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, The Asylum Dance (2000), winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award and The Good Neighbour, (2005). His most recent collections are Gift Songs, (2007) and The Hunt in the Forest, (2009). He is also the author of a collection of short stories, Burning Elvis (2000), and seven novels, including The Dumb House (1997), Living Nowhere (2003), The Devil's Footprints (2007) and Glister (2008). His memoir, A Lie About My Father, was published in 2006 and was awarded the Saltire Book of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Non-Fiction Book of the Year awards. He lives in Fife, Scotland, with his wife and sons. He is a Professor of English at the University of St Andrews, where he teaches American poetry, literature and ecology and creative writing.
Time: 5:15PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Website: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu

Ron Carlson Janey Lack Fiction Reading
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Ron Carlson is the award-winning author of four story collections and four novels, most recently The Signal and Five Skies. His fiction has appeared in Harper’s, The New Yorker, Playboy, and GQ, and has been featured on NPR’s This American Life and Selected Shorts as well as in Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize Stories. His novella, “Beanball,” was recently selected for Best American Mystery Stories. He is the director of the UC Irvine writing program and lives in Huntington Beach, California.
Time: 5:15PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Website: https://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu

Darcie Dennigan and Tung-Hui Hu alumni poetry reading
Thursday, March 11, 2010

Darcie Dennigan's first book, Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse, won the Poets Out Loud prize and was published by Fordham University Press in 2008. Her poems and other writing have appeared in 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, Atlantic Monthly, The Believer, Gulf Coast, The Nation, POOL, and Tin House. She is an associate editor at H_NGM_N, an online journal of poetry, poetics, etc. and a graduate of the Univerisity of Michigan MFA program. The recipient of recent awards from Coldfront Magazine and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, she lives in Providence, RI.

Tung-Hui Hu is the author of two books of poetry, Mine (Ausable/Copper Canyon, 2007), and The Book of Motion (University of Georgia, 2003). Described as a "contained surreal style that deftly shapes a philosophical argument" (Los Angeles Times), his writing has appeared in The New Republic, Ploughshares, Gastronomica, and Martha Stewart Living Radio. At the University of Michigan, he teaches courses on time-based art and poetry. His latest project is a sound installation titled The Last Time You Cried (lasttimeyoucried.com).

Time: 5:15PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Website: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu

V.V. Ganeshananthan and Lorna Goodison faculty reading
Thursday, March 25, 2010

Lorna Goodison is one of the Caribbean's most distinguished contemporary poets. Her work appears in the Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces and her many honors include the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, Americas Region and the Musgrave Gold Medal. She is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Controlling the Silver, Goldengrove: New and Selected Poems, Travelling Mercies (2001) and Turn Thanks: Poems (1999), as well as two collections of short stories and an acclaimed memoir, From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her People which was a finalist for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction and the Trillium Award, and won the B.C. Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. Her work, translated into many languages, is widely published and anthologized. Born in Jamaica, Goodison has taught at the University of Toronto and now teaches at the University of Michigan. She divides her time between Ann Arbor and Toronto.

V.V. Ganeshananthan, a fiction writer and journalist, is the author of Love Marriage (Random House, 2008). Set in Sri Lanka and its diaspora, the novel was named one of Washington Post Book World's Best Books of 2008, selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program, and longlisted for the Orange Prize. Ganeshananthan is a graduate of Harvard College, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the new MA program at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where she was a Bollinger Fellow specializing in arts and culture. Her short fiction has appeared in Granta, on Esquire.com, and in Himal Southasian magazine. Her journalism and essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, among others. A former vice president of the South Asian Journalists Association, she presently serves on the board of the Asian American Writers' Workshop and on the graduate board of The Harvard Crimson. She is a past recipient of Phillips Exeter's Bennett Fellowship and residency, and has taught at Skidmore College. She is now the Zell Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Michigan.

Time: 5:15PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Website: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu

Sylva Fischerova poetry reading
Monday, April 12, 2010
Sylva Fischerová was born in Prague in 1963. She has published six volumes of poems in Czech, including The Tremor of Racehorses: Selected Poems and The Swing in the Middle of Chaos: Selected Poems, which have been translated into English. She has also appeared in several translations and anthologies, including New European Poets (Graywolf, 2008). She lived in the Moravian town of Olomouc for twenty years, where her father, a distinguished philosopher and sociologist, had been rector of Olomouc University. After 1948, his non-Marxist views prevented him from publishing in his own country. Translator Stuart Friebert writes of her work that her “knowledge of human history, the ways she moves in and out of historical events, with an understanding and loving eye turned on our frailties as well as our corruptive tendencies, against the backdrop of her commanding sense of space and time, ‘makes beauty from monsters.’” She currently teaches ancient Greek literature and philosophy at the Charles University in Prague.
Time: 5:15PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Website: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu

Yiyun Li fiction reading
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Yiyun Li's stories and essays have been published in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships and awards from Lannan Foundation and Whiting Foundation. Her story collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, Guardian First Book Award, and California Book Award for first fiction. The Vagrants, her debut novel, was published in February, 2009. She was selected by Granta as one of the 21 Best Young American Novelists under 35. She lives in Oakland, CA with her husband and two sons, and teaches at UC Davis.
Time: 5:15PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Website: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu