University of Massachusetts Amherst

Fiction Reading: Heidi Julavits

The Visiting Writers Series at the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites you to a fiction reading by Heidi Julavits. For more than 40 years, the VWS has brought outstanding poets and writers to the university campus for public readings of new work.

Heidi Julavits is the author of three novels, most recently The Uses of Enchantment. Her short fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in McSweeney's, Esquire, Vogue, The New York Times, among other places. She is a founding editor of The Believer and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in Manhattan and Maine.

Visiting Writers Series events are sponsored by the MFA Program for Poets and Writers and the Juniper Initiative, the UMass Arts Council, and the UMass Alumni Association, Vice Provost of Research, The English Department, and the Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts.

All events are free, open to the public and handicap friendly.

Heidi Julavits