Spring 2007 Readers
Wednesday, March 7, 2007 at 5:30 p.m.
M.D. Anderson Library, Level 2
The Honors College Commons
Nick Flynn won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir in 2005 for his book Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, which has now been translated into thirteen languages. He is also the author of two books of poetry, Some Ether, which won the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, and Blind Huber. His poems, essays, and non-fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, on National Public Radio's This American Life, and in The New York Times Book Review. He teaches one semester a year in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston, and spends the rest of the year elsewhere.
Adam Zagajewski was born in 1945 in Lvov, Poland (now Ukraine). He graduated from the Iagelonian University in Krakow in 1970. In the seventies he joined the oppositional movement which protested the Communist regime. After gaining prominence as a poet, in 1988 he began to teach one semester a year at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. This fall he will leave to begin teaching at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
Four volumes of Zagajewski's poems have appeared in English - Tremor, Canvas, Mysticism for Beginners and Without End - as well as four collections of essays - Solidarity, Solitude, Two Cities, Another Beauty and A Defense of Ardor.
Wednesday, February 21, 2007 at 5:30 p.m.
M.D. Anderson Library, Level 2
The Honors College Commons
Antonya Nelson is on faculty of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston. Her first story collection, The Expendables, won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction in 1990. She is the author of four other short story collections, including Some Fun (Scribner, 2006), and three novels (Talking in Bed, Nobody's Girl, and Living to Tell). She lives in New Mexico, Texas, and Colorado.
Karen Brennan is the author of five books which include fiction, poetry and nonfiction -her most recent book of poems from Wesleyan is The Real Enough World (2005) and her most recent book of fiction is The Garden in Which I Walk ( FC2, 2004). She has also written a memoir, Being With Rachel, published by Norton in 2002. A recipient of the AWP award in fiction and a National Endowment of the Arts award, she is a professor in the creative writing program at the University of Utah and serves on the faculty at the Warren Wilson MFA Low Residency Program for Writers. She is currently a visiting faculty member in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston.
