MSU鈥檚 Price Caldwell Visiting Writers Series continues with Pennsylvania author, educator
Contact: Sasha Steinberg
STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擜uthor and educator Susan Perabo will deliver a public reading Monday [Sept. 16] as part of the 花秀直播 State University Department of English鈥檚 Price Caldwell Visiting Writers Series.
Free to all, Perabo鈥檚 presentation begins at 5 p.m. in Mitchell Memorial Library鈥檚 John Grisham Room. A public reception and book signing will follow.
Perabo also is scheduled to speak with students in the English department鈥檚 Creative Writing and American Short Stories classes, taught by MSU Professor of English Michael Kardos. Also serving as co-director of the department鈥檚 creative writing program, Kardos was honored this spring with the John Grisham Master Teacher Award for excellence in classroom instruction.
Established through an endowment from widow Alice Carol Caldwell and family, the Price Caldwell Visiting Writers Series serves as a memorial to Tutweiler native Price Caldwell, who served for more than 20 years as an MSU associate professor of English and died in 2015. He also founded and directed the university鈥檚 creative writing program, along with serving as president and vice president for the Southern Literary Festival organization.
Perabo is the author of the short story collections聽鈥淲ho I Was Supposed to Be鈥澛燼nd聽鈥淲hy They Run the Way They Do,鈥 and the novels聽鈥淭he Broken Places鈥澛燼nd聽鈥淭he Fall of Lisa Bellow.鈥 Her fiction has been anthologized in聽Best American Short Stories,聽Pushcart Prize Stories, and聽New Stories from the South, and has appeared in numerous magazines, including聽One Story,聽Glimmer Train,聽The Iowa Review,聽The Missouri Review, and聽The Sun. She is writer-in-residence and professor of English at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and also serves on the faculty of the low-residency Master of Fine Arts Program at Queens University. She holds an MFA degree from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
For additional information about Perabo鈥檚 campus visit and lecture, contact Kardos at 662-325-3644 or MKardos@english.msstate.edu.
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