Ander Monson, poet, essayist.

Reading Friday, Sept. 23, 2011, 3:30 p.m. Union Little Theater

Ander Monson's Neck Deep and Other Predicaments was the winner of the 2006 Graywolf Nonfiction Prize (Graywolf, 2007). Vanishing Point (nonfiction) appeared in 2010 from Graywolf Press and The Available World, poetry, appeared from Sarabande Books in 2010. He is the author of a collection of fiction, Other Electricities (Sarabande Books, 2005), winner of the John C. Zacharis prize from Ploughshares and a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Prize, and a collection of poetry, Vacationland (Tupelo Press, 2005). His work has been published in Ploughshares, The Believer, Ninth Letter, Boston Review, Quarterly West, Best American Essays 2008, and The Best Creative Nonfiction Volume 2. He is a 2007 recipient of the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award and a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship. Monson is the designer, editor, and publisher of the literary journal, DIAGRAM, and the founder and editor of New Michigan Press. He earned his MFA in Fiction and Poetry from the University of Alabama.

 

Manuel Muñoz, fiction writer.

Reading Friday, Oct. 21, 2011, 3:30 p.m. Union Little Theater

Manuel Muñoz is the author of two collections of short stories, Zigzagger (Northwestern University Press, 2003) and The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007), which was shortlisted for the 2007 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. He is a recipient of a 2008 Whiting Writers’ Award and a 2009 PEN/O. Henry Award for his story “Tell Him About Brother John.” His first novel, What You See in the Dark, was published in 2011. Muñoz was featured in the May 2011 issue of Oprah Magazine. His latest novel, What You See in the Dark, was recommended by Reading Room - Titles to Pick Up Now as “an eerily cinematic novel about the filming of Psycho, in which the offscreen action takes a Hitchcockian turn.” Muñoz has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts and he was selected as a juror for the 2011 PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Glimmer Train, Epoch, Eleven Eleven, and Boston Review, and has aired on National Public Radio’s Selected Shorts. A native of Dinuba, California, Manuel graduated from Harvard University and received his MFA in creative writing from Cornell University.

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Ronaldo V. Wilson, poet.

Reading Friday, March 9, 2012, 3:30 p.m. Union Little Theater

Ronaldo V. Wilson is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, from University of Pittsburgh Press and Poems of the Black Object from Futurepoem Books. He has held fellowships at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Vermont Studio Center, Cave Canem, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and the Yaddo Corporation, and has had four poems nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has taught creative writing and African American Poetics at Mount Holyoke College and has (very) recently joined the faculty at University of California, Santa Cruz.

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Rebecca Makkai, fiction writer.

Reading Friday, March 30, 2012, 3:30 p.m. Union Little Theater

Makkai holds an MA from Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English and a BA from Washington and Lee University. Her short fiction has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2011, 2010, 2009 and 2008, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009, New Stories from the Midwest and Best American Fantasy, and featured on Public Radio International’s Selected Shorts.

 

 

 

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John Price, nonfiction writer.

Reading Thursday, April 12, 2012, 7:30 p.m. Union Flint Hills Room

John T. Price is a Professor and current Jefferis Endowed Chair of English at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He earned his M.F.A. in Nonfiction Writing and Ph.D. in English at the University of Iowa, and is the author of two literary memoirs: Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey into the American Grasslands (U. of Nebraska Press, 2004) and Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships (2008, Da Capo Press). A recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, his autobiographical nonfiction has appeared in numerous national journals, magazines and anthologies, including Orion, the Christian Science Monitor, Creative Nonfiction, and the annual awards anthology, Best Spiritual Writing. He teaches literature and creative nonfiction writing courses at UNO, including Autobiography, Modern Familiar Essay, and Travel Writing, and in 2006, was given an Alumni Oustanding Teaching Award. He is also co-director of UNO's graduate certificate in Advanced Writing.

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