Kellie Wells, Ph.D., and Kerri Webster, both writers-in-residence in the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, will launch the fall Writing Program Reading Series at 8 p.m. Sept. 7.
The reading is free and open to the public and takes place in Hurst Lounge, Room 201 Duncker Hall. For more information, call 935-7130.
Wells, who also serves as director of the Writing Program, is the author of Compression Scars, which won the 2001 Flannery O’Connor Award for short fiction, and the novel Skin (2006). Her fiction has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner and other journals. In 2002 she received the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, which supports the work of emerging women writers.
Webster is the author of We Do Not Eat Our Hearts Alone (2005). Her poems have appeared in The Antioch Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Boston Review and VOLT. In 2003, Carl Phillips, professor of English and of African and African-American Studies in Arts & Sciences, selected Webster’s chapbook, Rowing Through Fog, as a winner of the Poetry Society of America’s National Chapbook Competition.