MSUās Price Caldwell Visiting Writers Series continues with Pennsylvania author, educator
Contact: Sasha Steinberg
STARKVILLE, Miss.āAuthor and educator Susan Perabo will deliver a public reading Monday [Sept. 16] as part of the Ļć½¶Ö±²„ Department of Englishās Price Caldwell Visiting Writers Series.
Free to all, Peraboās presentation begins at 5 p.m. in Mitchell Memorial Libraryās John Grisham Room. A public reception and book signing will follow.
Perabo also is scheduled to speak with students in the English departmentās Creative Writing and American Short Stories classes, taught by Ļć½¶Ö±²„Professor of English Michael Kardos. Also serving as co-director of the departmentās creative writing program, Kardos was honored this spring with the John Grisham Master Teacher Award for excellence in classroom instruction.
Established through an endowment from widow Alice Carol Caldwell and family, the Price Caldwell Visiting Writers Series serves as a memorial to Tutweiler native Price Caldwell, who served for more than 20 years as an Ļć½¶Ö±²„associate professor of English and died in 2015. He also founded and directed the universityās creative writing program, along with serving as president and vice president for the Southern Literary Festival organization.
Perabo is the author of the short story collectionsĀ āWho I Was Supposed to BeāĀ andĀ āWhy They Run the Way They Do,ā and the novelsĀ āThe Broken PlacesāĀ andĀ āThe Fall of Lisa Bellow.ā Her fiction has been anthologized inĀ Best American Short Stories,Ā Pushcart Prize Stories, andĀ New Stories from the South, and has appeared in numerous magazines, includingĀ One Story,Ā Glimmer Train,Ā The Iowa Review,Ā The Missouri Review, andĀ The Sun. She is writer-in-residence and professor of English at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and also serves on the faculty of the low-residency Master of Fine Arts Program at Queens University. She holds an MFA degree from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
For additional information about Peraboās campus visit and lecture, contact Kardos at 662-325-3644 or MKardos@english.msstate.edu.
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