[Yale-readings] Creative Writing Faculty Reading

[Nancy Kuhl]

>Creative Writing Faculty Reading
>
>Thursday, March 1, 2007
>7 p.m.
>  Linsly-Chittenden Hall 101 (63 High Street)
>
>free and open to the public
>sponsored by the Department of English
>
>Featuring:
>
>  Amy Bloom
>Donald Margulies
>Caryl Phillips
>
>The second in a two-part series of readings by faculty in creative writing 
>will take place Monday, March 1, 2007 at 7 p.m. in LC 101 (63 Wall 
>Street). It is free and open to the public.
>
>Amy Bloom is the author of a novel, Love Invents Us, and two collections 
>of stories: Come to Me, nominated for a National Book Award, and A Blind 
>Man Can See How Much I Love You, nominated for the National Book Critics 
>Circle Award. Her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, 
>Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and numerous anthologies here and 
>abroad. She has written for The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, 
>the Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, Slate, and Salon, among many other 
>publications, and has won a National Magazine Award. Her first book of 
>nonfiction, Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and 
>Hermaphrodites with Attitude, is an exploration of the varieties of gender.
>
>Donald Margulies received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Dinner 
>with Friends. His many plays include Brooklyn Boy, Sight  Unseen, 
>Collected Stories, God of Vengeance, Two Days, The Model Apartment, The 
>Loman Family Picnic, What's Wrong With This Picture?, Broken Sleep: Three 
>Plays, July 7, 1994, Found A Peanut, Resting Place, Gifted Children, 
>Zimmer and Luna Park. His plays have been performed at major theaters 
>across the United States and around the world. He has received grants from 
>the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts, 
>and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 2005 he was honored 
>with an Award in Literature given by the American Academy of Arts and 
>Letters. He is an alumnus of New Dramatists and serves on the council of 
>the Dramatists Guild of America.
>
>Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts, brought up in Leeds, and now lives 
>in New York City. He is the author of two anthologies, has written for 
>television, radio, theater and film and is the author of three works of 
>nonfiction and eight novels. Crossing the River was shortlisted for the 
>1993 Booker Prize. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an 
>honorary fellow of The Queens College, Oxford, and among his literary 
>prizes and awards has been honored with the Martin Luther King Memorial 
>Prize, a grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and 
>Britain's oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His 
>novel A Distant Shore won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize, and Dancing 
>in the Dark won the 2006 Pen/Beyond the Margins Prize. His new book 
>Foreigners: Three English Lives will be published in both the United 
>States and Britain this fall.
>
>Susan Bianconi
>Associate Editor
>The Yale Review
>P. O. Box 208243
>New Haven, CT 06520-8243
>203/432-0499
>203/432-0510, fax
>susan.bianconi at yale.edu

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