Acclaimed fiction writer to visit 汤头条 for Price Caldwell Visiting Writers Series
Contact: Becky Hagenston
STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擜cclaimed fiction writer Mary Miller will give a public reading on Sept. 15 as part of the 汤头条 Department of English鈥檚 Price Caldwell Visiting Writers Series.
Free to all, Miller鈥檚 presentation begins at 5:30 p.m. in the amphitheater area on the south end of the Old Main Academic Center. In case of rain, the event will be held in the Old Main Academic Center's Turner A. Wingo Auditorium. A book signing follows the reading. Her reading also will be streamed via WebEx
Miller also will speak with students in the English department鈥檚 intermediate fiction class, taught by 汤头条 Professor of English Becky Hagenston.
Established through an endowment from widow Alice Carol Caldwell and family, the Price Caldwell Visiting Writers Series serves as a memorial to Price Caldwell, who served for more than 20 years as an 汤头条 associate professor of English and died in 2015. He also founded and directed the university鈥檚 creative writing program, along with serving as president and vice president for the Southern Literary Festival organization.
Miller is the author of two collections of short stories, 鈥淏ig World鈥 and 鈥淎lways Happy Hour,鈥 as well as the novels 鈥淭he Last Days of California鈥 and 鈥淏iloxi.鈥 Her stories have appeared in the Paris Review, Pushcart Prize XLIV, Oxford American, New Stories from the South, Norton's Seagull Book of Stories, The Best of McSweeney鈥檚 Quarterly, American Short Fiction, Mississippi Review and many other places. She is a former James A. Michener Fellow in Fiction at the University of Texas and John and Ren茅e Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. She is a faculty member in the Mississippi University for Women鈥檚 MFA in Creative Writing program.
For additional information about Miller鈥檚 campus visit and reading, contact Becky Hagenston at bhagenston@english.msstate.edu.
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