Who: Lee Montgomery is the editorial director of Tin House Books and the executive editor for Tin House magazine. She is the author of The Things Between Us: A Memoir, which received the 2007 Oregon Book Award in Creative Nonfiction; Whose World Is This?, which won the 2007 John Simmons Iowa Short Fiction Award; and Searching for Emily. She is the editor of Woof!: Writers on Dogs, and her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous publications, including Denver Quarterly and the Alaska Quarterly Review.When: Wednesday March 4, 2009, at 7:30 p.m.

Where: Soda Center, Saint Mary's College of California, 1928 St. Mary's Rd., Moraga

Contact: MFA Program (925) 631-4457