Creative Writing Reading Series
Fall 2008
Katharine Noel
Wednesday, September 3, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Soda Activity Center
Katharine Noel’s novel Halfway House was a New York Times Editor’s Choice, the winner of the 2006 Kate Chopin Award for fiction, a Ken Book Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness, and a Rona Jaffe award. She teaches at Stanford University, where she formerly held Wallace Stegner and Truman Capote fellowships.
Tom Pickard
Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Soda Activity Center
Tom Pickard lives on the edge of Fiend’s Fell in the North Pennine Hills on the English-Scottish border and is author of numerous books of poetry, including High on the Walls, Hero Dust, The Dark Months of May, and The Ballad of Jamie Allan. He has also directed a number of documentary films for British television, including Jarrow March and We Make Ships. In 2004, Pickard was commissioned to write a libretto, The Ballad of Jamie Allan, for composer John Harle.
Dan White
Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Soda Activity Center
Dan White is a San Francisco-based journalist, author, freelance editor and writing lecturer. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Backpacker. White's first book, The Cactus Eaters, is a chronicle of his harrowing attempt to through-hike the Pacific Crest Trail with his then-girlfriend. White was a 2007-2008 Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University and holds an M.F.A. from Columbia University.
Ashley Capps
Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Soda Activity Center
Ashley Capps was born and raised in North Carolina and received her M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. The author of Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields, which won the 2005 Akron Poetry Prize, Capps has held fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and the Iowa Arts Council.
Peter Orner
Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Soda Activity Center
Peter Orner is the author of the novel The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, which won the Bard Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and the story collection Esther Stories, which won the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction. An associate professor at San Francisco State University and a winner of fellowships from the Guggenheim and Lannan Foundations, Orner received his M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Brenda Miller
Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Soda Center
Brenda Miller’s book, Season of the Body: Essays was a finalist for the PEN American Center Book Award. She has received four Pushcart Prizes for her work in creative nonfiction, and her essays have appeared in such periodicals as The Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Fourth Genre, The Sun, and Yoga Journal. An associate professor at Western Washington University and editor of the Bellingham Review, she is also the co-author of a textbook Tell it Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction.
Graduate Student Reading Series
Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Soda Activity Center
Molly Barrett, Sally Delehant, Lisa Gschwandtner, Ryan Harris, Benjamin Prickett, Sharon Zetter.
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