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EVENT NEWS / September 22, 2008

Boise State University's MFA Reading Series Features Author Pamela Johnston, Poet Renee Gladman in October

Poet Renee Gladman and author Pamela Johnston will appear as part of the Boise State University MFA Reading Series in October. Both readings are free and open to the public.

Gladman will read at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 10 in the Farnsworth Room of the Student Union Building. She is the author of “Juice,” “The Activist,” “A Picture Feeling” and, most recently, “Newcomer Can’t Swim.” A new work, “Toaf,” will be published by Atelos this fall. Gladman is the editor and publisher of Leon Works, an independent press for experimental prose and other thought projects based in the sentence, and teaches fiction in the Program in Literary Arts at Brown University.

Johnston will speak at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24 in the Student Union Lookout Room. Johnston grew up in Boise and graduated from the University of Idaho before relocating to the Midwest. A graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and the Ph.D. program at the University of Missouri-Columbia, her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in “High Plains Literary Review,” “Orchid,” “The Missouri Review,” the Chronicle of Higher Education and many other publications. She chairs the Communication Studies Department at Texas Lutheran University and lives in San Antonio with her husband and children.

Johnston’s first novel, “Little Lost River,” was released earlier this year. Set in Boise in the 1980s, it is “an unforgettable novel about two generations, mothers and daughters, linked by bonds of love and pain.”

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, Anthony Doerr, Richard Bausch and Nathaniel Mackey.

For more information, contact Jacob Powers at (208) 426-2669 or 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 Monday, September 22, 2008