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EVENT NEWS / February 1, 2008

Author Melanie Rae Thon to Speak at Boise State University as Part of MFA Reading Series

Author Melanie Rae Thon will give a reading at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 21 in the Lookout Room at the Boise State University Student Union Building. Thon’s reading is part of the MFA Reading Series and is free and open to the public.

Thon’s most recent book is the novel “Sweet Hearts.” Her other works include “Meteors in August” and “Iona Moon” and the story collections “First, Body,” “Girls in the Grass” and the recently completed “Heavenly Creatures.” Thon’s work has been included in “Best American Short Stories,” three Pushcart Prize anthologies and “The O. Henry Prize Stories.”

Thon is the recipient of a Whiting Writer’s Award, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a writer’s residency from the Lannan Foundation. Her new fiction appears in “Five Points, One Story,” “Pushcart Prize XXXII,” “The Best Stories of the America West,” “A Geography of the Heart,” and more. Originally from Montana, she now lives in migration between the Pacific Northwest, Arizona and Salt Lake City, where she teaches at the University of Utah.

Free and open to the public, the MFA Reading Series brings nationally renowned authors and poets to the Boise State campus. Past speakers include Rick Bass, Chris Offutt, Rae Armantrout, Alice Notley, Michael Palmer, Joy Williams, Denis Johnson, Richard Bausch and Nathaniel Mackey.

For more information, call 426-2669.

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Media Contact: Julie Hahn, University Communications, (208) 426-5540, juliehahn@boisestate.edu

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Last reviewed on Friday, February 01, 2008