Thursday, March 29, 2012

Lia Purpura Reading 4/5

A reading by
LIA PURPURA
Alexandroff Center Lecture Hall
600 S. Michigan Avenue, Room 921
Thursday, April 5, 6:00p.m.

The event is free and open to the public.
 
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Photo credit Alan Kolc.


LIA PURPURA
is the author of seven collections of essays, poems and translations, most recently, Rough Likeness (essays, Sarabande Books, January 2012). Her awards include Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (for the essay collection On Looking), NEA and Fulbright Fellowships, three Pushcart prizes, work in Best American Essays, 2011, the AWP Award in Nonfiction, and the Beatrice Hawley award in Poetry.  Recent work appears in Agni, Field, The Georgia Review, Orion, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and elsewhereShe is Writer in Residence at Loyola University, Baltimore, MD and teaches in the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA Program.

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