BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120708T000000 DTEND:20120712T000000 DTSTAMP:20120618T130724 SUMMARY:MFA Reading Series Visiting Authors and New Faculty DESCRIPTION: Mark Doty – poetry and nonfiction 7:30 p.m. Sunday, July 8 Clara Eagle Gallery Mark Doty, the only American poet to have won Great Britain’s T. S. Eliot Prize, is the author of seven books of poems including My Alexandria, which received both the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; School of the Arts; and Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, which won the 2008 National Book Award. He is also the author of three memoirs: Heaven’s Coast, Firebird and Dog Years, as well as The Art of Description: World into Word, a volume in the popular “Art of” series from Graywolf Press. In addition to the National Book Award, Doty has also received two NEA fellowships, Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, a Lila Wallace/Readers Digest Award, and the Witter Byner Prize. As the award citation for the last of these noted, “Mark Doty’s poems extend the range of the American lyric.” Doty was recently elected as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Sarah Gorham – poetry 7:30 p.m. Monday, July 9 Clara Eagle Gallery Sarah Gorham is the author of four poetry collections, including Bad Daughter, published in 2011 by Four Ways Books. She has received grants and fellowships from the Kentucky State Arts Council, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony and the Vermont Studio Center, among others. In March 1994, Gorham founded Sarabande Books, Inc., a small press devoted to the publication of poetry, short fiction and literary nonfiction. Gorham currently serves as Sarabande’s president and editor-in-chief. Stephen Graham Jones – fiction 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 11 Clara Eagle Gallery Stephen Graham Jones is the author of the short story collection Bleed into Me and 10 novels including Demon Theory, Ledfeather, and most recently, Growing Up Dead in Texas. He also has 120 or so short stories published, from literary journals to truck-enthusiast magazines, from textbooks to best-of-the-year anthologies and annuals. Jones has been an NEA Fellow and Texas Writers League Fellow, and has won the Texas Institute of Letters Award for Fiction and the Independent Publishers Multicultural Award. In 2009, his story “Lonegan’s Luck” was a Shirley Jackson Award finalist. A Blackfeet Native American, Jones’ areas of interest, aside from fiction writing, are horror, science fiction, fantasy, film, comics, pop culture, technology and American Indian Studies. Jones received his B.A. in English and philosophy from Texas Tech University, his M.A. in English from the University of North Texas, and his Ph.D. from Florida State University. Currently, he is an associate professor of English at the University of Colorado-Boulder MFA residency reading series 2012. Gary Jackson – poetry 3 p.m. Thursday, July 12 Clara Eagle GalleryBorn and raised in Topeka, Kan., Gary Jackson’s debut poetry collection Missing You Metropolis received the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Judge Yusef Komunyakaa wrote that the book “embodies a voice uniquely shaped and turned for the 21st century. Playful, jaunty, rueful and highly serious — sometimes within a singular poem — this person has been forged in the caldron of popular iconography. This first collection of poems is gauged by a sophisticated heart.” Jackson received his MFA from the University of New Mexico and has taught in Albuquerque and in Anyang, South Korea. More information: MFA Program in Creative Writing Department of English and Philosophy Murray State University 7C Faculty Hall Murray, KY 42071-3341 Phone: 270.809.4727 Fax: 270.809.4545 Or visit www.murraystate.edu/mfa UID:-1-1815-8805 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR