Department of English welcomes Monica Drake for MSU鈥檚 Price Caldwell Visiting Writers Series
Contact: Heath Fisackerly
STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擬ississippi State is welcoming fiction writer and Michigan native Monica Drake, the fall guest for the university鈥檚 Price Caldwell Visiting Writers Series.
Known for her novels 鈥淐lown Girl鈥 and 鈥淭he Stud Book,鈥 Drake will give a public reading Monday [Sept. 17] at 7 p.m. in the third-floor John Grisham Room at Mitchell Memorial Library.
A reception and book signing will follow. Earlier in the day, Drake will visit with students in the Department of English鈥檚 intermediate fiction writing class.
Drake鈥檚 鈥淐lown Girl鈥 was a finalist for the 2007 Ken Kesey Award and was hailed as 鈥渙ne of the most polished and eccentric pieces of fiction to come along in recent memory鈥 by the Seattle Times. Drake is the recipient of the Eric Hoffer Book Award, and her writings have been translated into Spanish, Italian, and other languages
Drake teaches at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon. She received her bachelor鈥檚 degree in general studies from Portland State University, and then her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Arizona in creative writing.
Established through an endowment from widow Alice Carol Caldwell and family, the Price Caldwell Visiting Writers Series serves as a memorial to the Tutweiler native, who served for more than 20 years as an 绿巨人视频associate professor of English and died in 2015. He also was founder and director of the university鈥檚 creative writing program, along with serving as president and vice president for the Southern Literary Festival organization.
For more on Drake鈥檚 campus visit and lecture, contact Michael Kardos, 绿巨人视频associate professor of English and creative writing program co-director, at 662-325-3644 or MKardos@english.msstate.edu.
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