Craft Talk and Reading by Visiting Writer Peter Rock
UWM's Department of English is pleased to bring author Peter Rock to the Hefter Center. Peter's most recent novel is The Shelter Cycle, which concerns the end of the world in Montana in 1990. His previous novel, My Abandonment, won an Alex Award, the Utah Book Award, and has been published in various countries and languages. He is also the author of the novels The Bewildered, The Ambidextrist, This Is the Place, and Carnival Wolves, and a story collection, The Unsettling. Rock attended Deep Springs College, received a BA in English from Yale University, and held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. He has taught fiction at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Deep Springs College, and in the MFA program at San Francisco State University. His stories and freelance writing have both appeared and been anthologized widely. The recipient of a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and other awards, he currently lives in Portland, Oregon, where he is a Professor in the English Department of Reed College. His next novel Klickitat will be published in fall 2015 or spring 2016, and his novel-within-photographs Spells will be shown at Blue Sky Gallery in 2015. The Craft Talk is at 3:30 p.m. in Curtin 319, and the reading begins at 7 p.m. on Thursday, October 23, at the Hefter Conference Center.