Fiction writers Elizabeth Graver and Edward Schwarzschild, alumni of The Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, will read from their work at 8 p.m. April 13 for The Writing Program Reading Series.
The reading is free and open to the public and takes place in Duncker Hall’s Hurst Lounge.
Graver (MFA ’90) is the author of a short-story collection, “Have You Seen Me?” (1991), and three novels: “The Honey Thief” (1999), “Unraveling” (1999) and “Awake” (2004).
Her stories and essays have been anthologized in “The Best American Short Stories” (1991, 2001), “The Best American Essays” (1998), “The Pushcart Prize Anthology” (2001) and “Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards” (1994, 1996, 2001).
An associate professor of English at Boston College, Graver has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.
Schwarzschild (Ph.D. ’94, M.A. ’89) is author of the novel “Responsible Men” (2005) and has published work in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Southwest Review, StoryQuarterly, Moment Magazine and The Yale Journal of Criticism.
A former Helen Deutsch Fellow in Creative Writing at Boston University and a recent Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, Schwarzschild teaches at the University at Albany, SUNY, where he holds a joint appointment in the English department and the New York State Writers Institute.
For more information, call 935-7130.