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EVENT NEWS / April 9, 2009

Fiction Writer Ann Cummins to Read April 17 as Part of Boise State University's MFA Reading Series

Fiction writer Ann Cummins will read at 7:30 p.m. April 17 in the Student Union Grand B Ballroom at Boise State University. Cummins’ appearance is part of the MFA Reading Series and is free and open to the public.

Cummins is the author of the novel “Yellowcake” and the short story collection “Red Ant House.” Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, “Hayden’s Ferry Review,” “A Room of One’s Own,” and “Sonora Review,” among others. Her story “The Red Ant House” — originally published in “McSweeney’s” — was anthologized in “The Best American Short Stories 2002.” A graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the University of Arizona writing programs, Cummins now teaches creative writing at Northern Arizona University.

Free and open to the public, the Boise State 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, J.H. Prynne, Lyn Hejinian, Michael Palmer, Joy Williams, Anthony Doerr, Denis Johnson, Richard Bausch and Nathaniel Mackey. For more information, contact Jacob Powers at jacobpowers@boisestate.edu. 

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

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Last reviewed on Thursday, April 09, 2009