Ron Carlson & Michelle Latiolais

MFA FALL READING SERIES PRESENTS: RON CARLSON & MICHELLE LATIOLAIS

Date: Friday, October 30, 2009
Time: 7:00 PM
Place: Alice Peters Auditorium (Peters Building 191)

Ron Carlson is the author of eight books of fiction, including the novel Five Skies. His stories have appeared in Esquire, Harper’s, The New Yorker, and Gentleman’s Quarterly. He has received a number of honors and awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, a National Society of Arts and
Letters Literature Award, and the 1993 Ploughshares Cohen Prize. He directs the graduate program in fiction at the University of California, Irvine.

Michelle Latiolais is a Professor of English at the University of California at Irvine. She is the author of the novel Even Now which received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the Commonwealth Club of California. Her second novel, A Proper Knowledge, was published in 2008 by Bellevue Literary Press.

She has published writing in three anthologies, Absolute Disaster, Women On The Edge: Writing From Los Angeles and Woof! Writers on Dogs. Her stories and essays have appeared in Zyzzyva, The Antioch Review, Western Humanities Review and the Santa Monica Review. Most recently she had work in issues of the Iowa Review and the Northwest Review.

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