From Sarah Chrystler ’13:
Writing at Wesleyan presents:
Novelist SALVATORE SCIBONA
And poet TONYA FOSTERSalvatore Scibona’s first novel, The End, was a finalist for the
National Book Award and won the Young Lions Fiction Award from the New York Public Library. His writing has also appeared in the New York
Times, Harper’s, The New Yorker, and he was among The New Yorker’s
list of “20 Under 40” writers to watch. He has received a Whiting
Writers’ Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and he is a Visiting
Writer this year in Wesleyan’s English Department.Tonya Foster’s first collection of poetry, A Swarm of Bees in High
Court, is out this fall from Belladonna/Futurepoem Books. She is also
co-editor of Third Mind: Creative Writing Through Visual Art. The
recipient of a Ford Foundation Fellowship and a Mellon Fellowship in
the Humanities, she is an associate at the Institute for Writing and
Thinking at Bard College and a Visiting Writer in Wesleyan’s English
Department.Free and open to the public.
Reception and book signing to follow the reading.
For more information, please call 860.685.3448 or visit our website.
Date: TODAY, September 25th
Time: 8:00PM – 9:00PM
Place: Russell House, 350 High Street
Cost: FREE