UB Faculty Open M.F.A.'s Fall Reading Series, Sept. 22
September 11, 2014
Contact: University Relations
Phone: 410.837.5739
Five professors from the University of Baltimore's acclaimed M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts will read from their own works as UB's Fall Reading Series gets underway on Monday, Sept. 22. Faculty members Betsy Boyd, Jane Delury, Kendra Kopelke, Steve Matanle, and Marion Winik each will present selections from their own original writings, including poetry, fiction, essays and personal memoirs. The event will begin at 7 p.m. in the Bogomolny Room in the UB Student Center, 21 W. Mt. Royal Ave. The event is free and open to the public.
Learn about the five, each of whom is a faculty member in the Klein Family School of Communications Design in UB's Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences:
Betsy Boyd is a lecturer whose fiction has been published in Sententia, Shenandoah and Verb: An Audioquarterly. She is the recipient of a James A. Michener Fellowship and residencies through Fundación Valparaíso, the Alfred and Trafford Klots International Program for Artists and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Her short story "Scarecrow" received a Pushcart Prize. Learn more about Boyd.
Jane Delury is an assistant professor whose fiction has appeared in journals and anthologies, including the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2011, The Southern Review, Narrative (by which she was named one of 20 Best New Writers), StoryQuarterly, Prairie Schooner and others. She received the F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Story Contest Award and has been nominated for Best New American Voices and for the Pushcart Prize. Learn more about Delury.
Kendra Kopelke, an associate professor and director of the M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts, is a poet whose works includes Eager Street, Carpe Diem, Ants, Bladderville, Hopper's Women, and the anthology When Divas Dance. She also serves as an editor for Passager Books. Learn more about Kopelke.
Steve Matanle is an associate professor whose poetry and fiction includes the books Patience and The Black Notebook. He also collaborated with the band Red Sammy on the album These Poems With Kerosene. Learn more about Matanle.
Marion Winik, an assistant professor, has produced a number of essays and books, as well as the "Boehmian Rhapsody" column in Baltimore Fishbowl. Her works include Highs in the Low Fifties, The Glen Rock Book of the Dead, Above Us Only Sky, Rules for the Unruly: Living an Unconventional Life, and several others. Her essays have appeared in Cosmopolitan, The New York Times Magazine, McCalls, and several other publications. Learn more about Winik.
The M.F.A. Reading Series is sponsored by the Hearst Visiting Scholars Fund.
Learn more about UB's M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts.
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