Fiction writers Elizabeth Graver and Edward Schwarzschild, both alumni of Washington University’s Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, will read from their work at 8 p.m. Friday, April 13, for The Writing Program Reading Series.
The reading is free and open to the public and takes place in Hurst Lounge, located on the second floor of Duncker Hall, in the northeast corner of Brookings Quadrangle. For more information, call (314) 935-7130.
Graver (MFA ’90) is the author of a short story collection, Have You Seen Me? (1991), and three novels: The Honey Thief (1999), Unravelling (1999) and Awake (2004). Her stories and essays have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories (1991, 2001), 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, MA ’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 currently teaches at the University at Albany, SUNY, where he holds a joint appointment in the English department and the New York State Writers Institute.
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WHO: Fiction writers Elizabeth Graver and Edward Schwarzschild WHAT: Reading from their work WHEN: 8 p.m. Friday, April 13 WHERE: Hurst Lounge, Room 201 Duncker Hall COST: Free and open to the public SPONSOR: Washington University’s Writing Program Reading Series INFORMATION: (314) 935-7130 |