Amanda Ward
Monday, April 6, 7:30 p.m., Maloney Room, Main Building
From a cabin in Maine and a comedy club in Manhattan to a diner in Montana and a raft rushing through the Grand Canyon, Love Stories in This Town features 12 short stories about love in all of its complexity, absurdity and glory.
Amanda Ward is an award-winning author of three novels, Forgive Me, How to Be Lost (a Target Bookmarked pick)and Sleep Toward Heaven (a Violet Crown Book Award winner). She recently finished Love Stories in This Town, her first collection of short stories. She has studied, taught and traveled internationally to locations such as Kenya, Egypt and Greece. She has also written for The Austin Chronicle and a variety of Internet startups. She earned an MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of Montana.
Patrick Clary, MD
Tuesday, March 24, 7:30 p.m., Maloney Room, Main Building
Dying for Beginners is more than a collection of poems — it is a lyrical memoir of love, life and death that takes readers from the Nevada desert to Southeast Asia to big city emergency rooms.
Patrick L. Clary, MD, has spent more than 20 years caring for gravely ill patients and their families. Board certified in family practice, hospice and palliative medicine, he received his first professional training in poetry as a student of poet Roland Flint. He has published articles in numerous medical journals, literary magazines and two previous collections of poetry, Notes for a Loveletter and Old Friends.
Andrew Porter
Wednesday, February 18, 7:30 p.m., Mabee Ballroom B, Robert and Pearle Ragsdale Center
Andrew Porter is the author of the Flannery O’Connor Award-winning short story collection The Theory of Light and Matter. A graduate of The Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a former James Michener Fellow, Porter’s fiction has appeared in One Story, Epoch, The Pushcart Prize Anthology and on NPR’s Selected Shorts. He currently teaches at Trinity University in San Antonio. |
