Ann Pancake to read at Museum of Art

PULLMAN – Washington State University’s Department of English continues its Fall 2006 Visiting Writer Series on Thursday, November 16, with author Ann Pancake.

The reading, sponsored by the WSU Department of English, Artist Trust, the Visual, Performing and Literary Arts Committee (VPLAC) and the Museum of Art/WSU is scheduled for the Museum of Art  at 7:30 p.m.  Books will be available after the reading.

Pancake’s collection of short stories, Given Ground, won the 2000 Bakeless award.  Other prizes she has received include a Whiting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant, a Pushcart Prize, the Glasgow Prize, and creative writing fellowships from the states of Washington, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania.  Her fiction and essays have appeared in journals and anthologies like Glimmer Train, Virginia Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, and New Stories from the South.  She holds a PHD in English Literature from the University of Washington and now teaches in the Rainier Writing Workshop low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University.

For more information, please call Aimee Phan at (509) 335-7309 or aphan@wsu.edu.

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