The Towson Literary Reading Series offers its final event for 2008-09 schedule at 6 p.m. this Wednesday, April 15, 2009 when fiction writer Jerry Gabriel and poet Karen Leona Anderson visit Towson University. Note that this 6 p.m. time is a change from previous announcements. The reading will take place in Lecture Hall 238. Arrive early, stay late, win a book!
Jerry Gabriel lives in St. Inigoes, Maryland, with his wife, poet Karen Leona Anderson, and their hound Moxy, where he is an assistant professor of English at St. Mary?s College of Maryland. His first book of fiction, Drowned Boy, was the winner of the 2008 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and will be published in the fall of 2009 by Sarabande Books. Mr. Gabriel holds degrees from The Ohio State University, Northern Arizona University and the University of Iowa Writers? Workshop. His stories have appeared in One Story, Epoch, and Fiction, among other magazines. He is currently at work on a novel, Resurrecting the Single Wing, about an Ohio high school football coach.
Karen Leona Anderson is the author of Punish Honey (Carolina Wren, 2009). She received an M.F.A. from the University Iowa Writers? Workshop, an M.A. from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, and her Ph.D. from Cornell University, where she wrote a dissertation on poetry and science. Her work has appeared in ecopoetics, jubilat, verse, Indiana Review, Fence, Volt, and other journals. She is an assistant professor of English at St. Mary?s College of Maryland.
The Towson Literary Reading Series is assisted by the Department of English, the Clarisse Mechanic Fund, and the College of Liberal Arts.
For more information, contact Michael Downs, Asst Professor, Dept of English at {mdowns@towson.edu
