Issued by: Laura Hunt
414-229-6447
llhunt@uwm.edu
Date: Oct. 19, 2004
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Issued by: Laura Hunt Date: Oct. 19, 2004 |
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| Stewart Ikeda |
MILWAUKEE — Novelist Stewart Ikeda, author of an epic novel about internment camp experiences of Japanese-Americans during World War II, will read from his works on Thursday, Nov. 11, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM).
Ikeda will appear at 7:30 p.m. in room 124 of Curtin Hall, 3242 N. Downer Ave. The event is free and open to the public.
Ikeda’s “What the Scarecrow Said” (1996) was nominated by publisher HarperCollins-Regan Books for a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous publications, including Story, Glimmer Train Stories, and Ploughshares.
The editor and columnist for Asian-American Village Online magazine also is widely published on the topics of ethnicity, ethnic studies, and civil liberties in periodicals and anthologies, including “Last Witnesses” (St. Martin's Press, 2001), “Yellow Light” (Temple University Press, 2000), and “Voices of the Xiled” (Doubleday/Main Street Books, 1994).
“Ikeda’s is a richly textured and layered book that sets characters, cultures, and histories into counterpoint,” says fiction writer and poet Charles Baxter of “What the Scarecrow Said.”
“And the result is a finely tuned story about forms of animosity and love both inside and outside the Asian-American community during a difficult historical period.”
Ikeda received his master’s degree from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. He has been a lecturer in the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and also has given nonacademic workshops, including "Working in Online Media," at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2000.
His reading is part of the Visiting Writer Series hosted by UWM’s Creative Writing Program, which is celebrating its 35th anniversary as a graduate program. The event is co-sponsored by the English Department, the College of Letters and Science, The Boudreaux Foundation, and the UWM College of Letters and Science Constituent Alumni Association.
For more information, contact Steve Tighe, 229-6991 or 964-5582, or email sptigue@uwm.edu.
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