Lynn Freed
To read on at the John Natsoulas Gallery
Thursday, May 16th at 8 P.M.
Lynn Freed is a South African writer and novelist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Ploughshares, Vogue, The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Atlantic Monthly, Tin House, and The New Yorker. She has been awarded the inaugural Katherine Anne Porter Award for Fiction by The American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has received grants from The National Endowment for the Arts, The Guggenheim Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, among others.
Her short story “Sunshine” won the 2011 PEN/O. Henry Prize, the nation’s highest honor for short fiction, and her story “Ma: A Memoir” was performed on NPR’s Selected Shorts. Several of her novels, as well as her collection of stories, The Curse of the Appropriate Man, have appeared on The New York Times “Notable Books of the Year” list.
She lives in Northern California, and teaches at the University of California, Davis.
Attendees are encouraged to arrive early at the John Natsoulas Gallery to secure a seat, and to sign up for a spot on the Open Mic list. The Poetry Night Reading Series, hosted and produced by Andy Jones, occurs on the first and third Thursday of every month at the John Natsoulas Gallery.
Who: Lynn Freed
What: The Poetry Night Reading Series
When: Thursday, May 16th at 8 P.M.
Where: John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street, 530-756-3938
Media Contact: Leanne Watkins
Email: leawatkins@ucdavis.edu
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