Short Story Writer Amy Hempel, Nov. 8
October 26, 2010
Contact: University Relations
Phone: 410.837.5739
Short story writer and essayist Amy Hempel, author of what is widely regarded as one of the greatest stories of the past two decades, "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried," will continue the University of Baltimore's Fall M.F.A. Reading Series on Monday, Nov. 8, 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.
A native of Chicago, Hempel has authored four collections: Reasons to Live (1985), At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom (1990), Tumble Home (1997), and The Dog of the Marriage (2005). Her essays and stories have also appeared in
Vanity Fair, Interview, Harper's, The Quarterly, and many other leading publications. She teaches creative writing at Harvard College and fiction at The New School, as well as in the master's program at Bennington College and the creative writing program at Princeton University. She also serves in the graduate fiction writing program at Brooklyn College.
Hempel's minimalist style has prompted comparisons to Raymond Carver and Mary Robison. She has won the Hobson Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and in 2007, the Ambassador Book Award for her Collected Stories, which was also named as one of the Ten Best Books of the year by The New York Times. Last year, Hempel received the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction along with Alistair MacLeod.
The final event in the Fall 2010 M.F.A. Reading Series will be the M.F.A Student Reading, to be held on Wednesday, Dec. 15 at 7 p.m., also in the Bogomolny Room.
The series is sponsored by the Hearst Fund and the Klein Family Fund. For more information, contact Jaye Crooks at 410.837.6022 or jcrooks@ubalt.edu.
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