Contact: Maridith Geuder
STARKVILLE, Miss.--An award-winning Ohio fiction writer and former creative writing program director reads from her work Tuesday [March 2] at Mississippi State.
Michelle Herman will lead the 7:30 p.m. free program in Colvard Student Union's third-floor Fowlkes Auditorium. Her university visit is co-sponsored by the English department's Robert Holland Visiting Writers Series and the Shackouls Honors College.
Herman's novels include "Dog" (2005) and "Missing" (1998), as well as the 2005 novella, "The Middle of Everything." In addition to serving as co-editor of Ohio State's literary magazine, she teaches in the university's creative writing program that she formerly led.
A graduate of Brooklyn College and the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop, she has received numerous recognitions, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Ohio Arts Council and Copernicus Foundation. She also has been honored with the Harold U. Ribalow Prize for "best Jewish fiction" and a James Michener Fellowship.
Herman's stories and essays have appeared in "The North American Review," "The Southern Review," "American Scholar," and "O, the Oprah Magazine," among other publications. Her work also is included in "Jewish-American Fiction: A Century of Stories, Stumbling and Raging" and other anthologies.
For more information, contact the English department at 662-325-3644.
For more information about Mississippi State University, see http://www.msstate.edu/.