LANCASTER, Pa. - Author Julie Orringer will present a fiction reading on Wednesday, Sept. 19, at 8 p.m. in Franklin & Marshall's Philadelphia Alumni Writers House. The reading, co-sponsored by the English department, is free and open to the public.
Orringer is a Helen Hertzog Zell Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Michigan. Her short story collection, How to Breathe Underwater, was a New York Times Notable Book and the winner of the Northern California Book Award. Orringer is a graduate of Cornell University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and was a Truman Capote Fellow in the Stegner Program at Stanford. Her stories have appeared in The Paris Review, McSweeney's, Ploughshares, Zoetrope: All-Story,The Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Best New American Voices, and The Best American Non-Required Reading. She was the recipient of a 2004-05 NEA grant for her current project, a novel set in Budapest and Paris in the late 1930s. -30- |
