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News Release Oct. 23, 2006
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Author Allen Wier will appear as
part of the Boise State University MFA Reading Series at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 9 in the
Student Union Barnwell Room. The reading is free and open to the public.
Wier is the author of the novels “A Place for Outlaws,” “Departing As Air” and
“Blanco.” He also wrote a collection of stories, “Things About to Disappear,”
and his latest release, “Tehano,” was published this year. “Tehano” is set in
the years before and after the Civil War and features a cast of characters
ranging from cowboys and peasant farmers to buffalo hunters and runaway slaves.
Wier is currently working on a new novel, “Skin for Skin,” and is completing a
new volume of short stories.
Wier is the editor of an anthology, “Walking on Water and Other Stories,” and
the co-editor of “Voicelust,” a collection of essays. In 1997 he received the
Robert Penn Warren Award, which is given biennially by the Fellowship of
Southern Writers to “recognize an outstanding young Southern writer of fiction.”
In 2001 he was voted into the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He has received a
Guggenheim Fellowship and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts,
among others. His fiction, essays and reviews have appeared in the Southern
Review, Five Points, Georgia Review, Ploughshares, Shenandoah and the New York
Times.
Free and open to the public, the MFA Reading Series brings nationally known
authors and poets to the Boise State campus. Past speakers include Rick Bass,
Chris Offutt, Rae Armantrout, Michael Palmer, Alice Notley, Joy Williams and
Denis Johnson.
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Contact: Dave Nicholas, MFA Reading Series,
davidnicholas@boisestate.edu
Media Contact: Julie Hahn, University Communications, (208) 426-5540,
juliehahn@boisestate.edu
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Idaho. For the ninth time in the last 10 years, Boise State University has set
an all‑time state record with a fall enrollment of 18,876 students. Since 1996,
Boise State’s student population has increased 25 percent.
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