Book Launch, Reading with Fiction Writers James Magruder, Susan Perabo, Sept. 28
September 20, 2016
Contact: Public Affairs
Phone: 410.837.5739
Fiction authors Susan Perabo and James Magruder will read from their works and engage in a discussion about their artistic process on Wednesday, Sept. 28, as the University of Baltimore's M.F.A. Reading Series kicks off its fall season. The event will begin at 7 p.m. in the Bogomolny Room in the UB Student Center, 21 W. Mt. Royal Ave. It is free and open to the public.
The University of Baltimore's M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts brings renowned authors and poets to the UB campus to share words and insights in an intimate setting with Creative Writing & Publishing Arts students. Question-and-answer sessions following each reading allow the audience to further their understanding of the writers and their works.
The author of the short-story collections Why They Run the Way They Do and Who I Was Supposed to Be, Perabo also wrote the novel The Broken Places. Her fiction has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Pushcart Prize Stories, and New Stories from the South, and has also appeared in numerous magazines. She is writer in residence at Dickinson College and is a member of the faculty of the low-residency MFA program at Queens University.
After 15 years as a playwright and dramaturg, Magruder is now focused on fiction. His stories have appeared in New England Review, The Gettysburg Review, Bloom, Subtropics, The Normal School, and elsewhere, and in the anthologies Boy Crazy and New Stories from the Midwest. His debut novel, Sugarless, was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist and was shortlisted for both the VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize and the 2010 William Saroyan International Writing Prize. His debut story collection, Let Me See It, was published in 2014. His latest novel, Love Slaves of Helen Hadley Hall, was published earlier this year. Magruder teaches fiction writing in UB's MFA Creative Writing & Publishing Arts program.
The M.F.A. Reading Series is sponsored by the Hearst Visiting Scholars Fund and the Klein Family Fund.
Learn more about the M.F.A. Reading Series and the M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts, part of the University of Baltimore's Klein Family School of Communications Design in the Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences.