On October 23, the Graduate Writers Forum of SIUC welcomes writers from the University of Missouri. The reading will take place at 5:30 pm at the Mississippi Room, SIUC Student Center, second floor. The reading is free and open to the public. The readers are:
Jessica Garrett, poet and author of Fire Pond (winner of the 2008 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry, published by University of Utah Press in April 2009)
Stephanie Carpenter, fiction writer whose work has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, St. Ann's Review, turnrow and Avery Anthology
Robert Long Foreman, essayist whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Massachusetts Review, Alimentum, Under the Sun, Harper Palate and North Dakota Quarterly
and
Stephanie Wortman, poet whose work has appeared in Yale Review, New Orleans Review and Smartish Pace, among other journals.
