All events are free, wheelchair accessible, and open to the public. All readings occur in Memorial Hall.
STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES' most recent novel is Demon Theory . Other works include The Fast Red Road , All The Beautiful Sinners , The Bird is Gone , and Bleed Into Me: A Book of Stories . He's been an NEA Fellow, a Texas Writers League Fellow, a Texas Monthly Book Club Selection, and has won the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction and the Texas Institute of Letters Jesse Jones Award for Fiction. His short fiction has been published everywhere from Writing Fiction to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.
YANNICK MURPHY is the author of the novels The Sea Of Trees , Here They Come , and Signed , Mata Hari ; the story collections Stories In Another Language and In A Bear's Eye ; and a children's book, Ahwooooooo! . Her short fiction has been published in The Quarterly, Epoch, The Antioch Review, AGNI, and McSweeney's . She has received a Whiting Writer's Award, a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts, a MacDowell Artists' Colony fellowship and an O. Henry Prize. She lives with her husband and three children in Vermont.
ALICE NOTLEY'S most recent books are Grave Of Light: New And Selected Poems , and In The Pines . She is the author of more than 20 books of poetry. Notley was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry. In the spring of 2001, she received an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Poetry Society of America's Shelly Memorial Award. She edited and wrote a new introduction to her late husband Ted Berrigan's The Sonnets (Penguin, 2000).
JAMES TATE was born in Kansas City, Missouri. His works include Return To The City Of White Donkeys , The Worshipful Company Of Fletchers , which won the National Book Award, Selected Poems , which won the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award for Poetry, and The Lost Pilot , which was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. His awards include a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, the Wallace Stevens Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. On May 12, Ecco will release his latest book of poetry, The Ghost Soldiers .
Visiting Writers Series events are sponsored by the MFA Program for Poets and Writer, the Juniper Initiative, and the English Department, and are made possible in part by support from the Vice Provost for Research, UMass Arts Council, and Alumni Association.
Lisa Olstein
Associate Director
MFA Program for Poets and Writers & Juniper Initiative
Dept. of English, Bartlett Hall
University of Massachusetts
Amherst MA 01003
(413) 545-5510
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