For Immediate Release

February 21 , 2008

wesleyan announces visiting writers series

LINCOLN, Neb. — Three published authors will be featured this spring at Nebraska Wesleyan University’s annual Visiting Writers Series.

All readings are free and open to the public.

The following is a schedule of events:
March 6 — Ben Marcus is the author of Notable American Women, The Father Costume, and The Age of Wire and String. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Award, three Pushcart prizes, a fellowship from the Howard Foundation, and a Whiting Writer’s Award. Marcus will do a reading at 7 p.m. in Callen Conference Center, located in the lower level of the Smith-Curtis Administration Building.

April 3 — William Henry Lewis is the recipient of a 2008 Creative Writing Fellowship in prose fiction by the National Endowment for the Arts. He currently teaches in the Masters of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at the University of Maryland – College Park. His writing has appeared in America’s top literary journals and several anthologies including Best American Short Stories in 1996. Lewis’ reading will begin at 7 p.m.

April 17 — Selah Saterstrom is the author of The Meat and Spirit Plan and The Pink Institution. She co-curates Slab Projects, an artist/writer-curator initiative concerned with exploring the gaps between decay and reconstruction in ruined or abandoned landscapes. She now teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Denver. Saterstrom’s reading will begin at 7 p.m. in Callen Conference Center.

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