Fiction writer Deborah Eisenberg, the visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in The Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, will read from her work at 8 p.m. Feb. 8 as part of The Writing Program Reading Series.
In addition, The Writing Program will host a Q&A with Eisenberg at 8 p.m. Feb. 15.
Both events are free and open to the public and take place in Hurst Lounge, Room 201 Duncker Hall.
Eisenberg is the author of five short story collections: “All Around Atlantis” (1997), “The Stories (So Far) of Deborah Eisenberg” (1996), “Under the 82nd Airborne” (1992), “Transactions in a Foreign Currency” (1986) and “Twilight of the Super Heroes: Stories” (2006).
Her play,”Pastorale,” was produced by Second Stage in New York in 1982. She is author of the monograph “Air: Twenty Four Hours, Jennifer Bartlett”(1995). A contributing editor for Bomb magazine, she has written for The New Yorker and The Yale Review, among others. Her work appeared in Best American Short Stories in 1992 and 2004.
Eisenberg’s numerous honors include the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and a Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship.
For more information, call 935-7130.