Issued by: Laura Hunt
414-229-6447
llhunt@uwm.edu
Date: Oct. 10, 2003
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Issued by: Laura Hunt Date: Oct. 10, 2003 |
MILWAUKEE — Ron Tanner, an award-winning short fiction writer and alumnus
of the university of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, will read from his works on Wednesday,
Nov. 5 on the UWM campus.
The free reading is at 7:30 p.m. in room 175 of Curtin Hall, 3243 N. Downer Ave.
Tanner, who received his Ph.D. in creative writing from UWM and a master’s degree in fiction writing from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, recently published a collection of short stories, A Bed of Nails. He also teaches writing at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland.
Writer and Professor Janet Burroway, who chose A Bed of Nails for the G.S. Sharat Chandra Fiction Prize says, “The author is fabulously imaginative, experimental, witty, often breathtaking. It’s a very assured and audacious work.”
Tanner’s other awards include a Pushcart Prize for Short Fiction, the Faulkner Society Award for Short Fiction, and the New Letters Literary Award in short fiction. His stories have appeared in numerous publications, including The Iowa Review, The Quarterly, Indiana Review, Washington Review, Story Quarterly, and The Massachusetts Review.
Novelist Madison Smartt Bell says the stories in Tanner’s diverse collection “create a whole new image of the complex interrelationships between art and life.”
His reading is part of a series sponsored by the university’s Creative Writing Program and co-sponsored by the English Department and the College of Letters and Science. For more information contact Steve Tighe at 229-6991 or 964-5582, or email sptighe@uwm.edu.
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