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Oct. 26, 2004
Award-winning author
Lisa Sandlin will read
selections from her book "In the River Province" on Wednesday,
Nov. 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the UPS Auditorium of the Lincoln
Center. The public is invited to attend this free
event which is sponsored by the Sioux City Reading Series
and Morningside's Cultural Academic and Arts Series (ACAS).
"In the River Province
" is a collection of short stories set in New Mexico, published
this year by Southern Methodist University Press. She has
two previous collections from Cinco Puntos Press including
"The Famous Thing About Death" and "Message to the Nurse of
Dreams," winner of the Violet Crown Award from the Austin
Writers League and the Texas Institute of Letters Best Book
of Fiction in 1997. She is the recipient of a National Endowment
for the Arts (NEA) Fellowship, a Dobie Paisano Fellowship,
a Pushcart Prize, and Story of the Year awards from Shenandoah,
Southwest Review, and Crazyhorse. Her work has also been published
in The Mississippi Review, Story Quarterly, The New York Times,
and others. Sandlin is co-editor of "Times of Sorrow, Times
of Grace" by Backwaters Press, which was named the Poetry
Honor Book and won Best Cover Design/Illustration in the 2003
Nebraska Book Awards.
Sandlin holds a bachelor's
degree from Rice University and a master's degree from Vermont
College. She is assistant professor of English at Wayne State
College where she teaches creative writing.
The Sioux
City Reading Series, which began in 1998, brings nationally
published poets, novelists, and short story writers to Sioux
City each semester to give readings and occasionally conduct
workshops or discussions with students and others interested
in writing. Dr. Stephen Coyne, professor of English at Morningside,
is creator and coordinator of the series.
For more information
contact Dr. Stephen Coyne at Morningside College at (712)
274-5267.
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