Visiting Writers Series hosts Kevin Stewart
Author Kevin Stewart gives a reading on Thursday, April 9, at 8 p.m. in Memorial Hall as part of the Visiting Writers Series.
A native of Princeton, W.Va., Stewart is the author of “The Way Things Always Happen Here: Eight Stories and a Novella,” which was nominated for Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year Award for Fiction/Short Stories and the Weatherford Award for Appalachian Fiction/Poetry. Stewart has also been awarded Appalachian Heritage’s Plattner Award in Fiction, the Texas Review Novella Prize, and state arts fellowships from West Virginia and Louisiana. Stories from his collection-in-progress, “Tales from North Gates,” related short stories and shorts set in the post-Katrina North Gates neighborhood adjacent to Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, appear in the Southeast Review and are forthcoming in the online journal The Hamilton Review. Other work has appeared in Shenandoah, Louisiana Literature, Connecticut Review, and more. After stints at West Virginia University and LSU, Stewart now teaches in the writing program at the University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown.
For more than 40 years, the Visiting Writers Series has brought outstanding poets and writers to the university campus for public readings of new work.
The series is sponsored by the MFA Program for Poets and Writers and the Juniper Initiative, Massachusetts Cultural Council, UMass Arts Council, Alumni Association, vice provost for Research and Engagement, English Department, and the dean of Humanities and Fine Arts.
All events are free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible
March 29, 2009.
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