UNT Announces Fall Visiting Writers Series

The Visiting Writers Series brings nationally and internationally renowned writers to the University of North Texas Denton campus to give readings, which are free and open to the public. Please join us!

Hannah Tinti
Thursday, October 4, 2012
University Union, Golden Eagle Suite
8 p.m.
Hannah Tinti’s short story collection, Animal Crackers, has sold in sixteen countries and was a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway award. Her best-selling novel, The Good Thief, is a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, recipient of the American Library Association’s Alex Award, winner of the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and winner of the Quality Paperback Book Club’s New Voices Award. Hannah is also co-founder and editor-in-chief of One Story magazine, and received the 2009 PEN/Nora Magid award for excellence in editing. Recently, she joined the Public Radio program, Selected Shorts, as their Literary Commentator. For more information, visit www.hannahtinti.com.


Kevin Prufer
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
University Union, Golden Eagle Suite
8 p.m.
Kevin Prufer is the author of five books of poems, the most recent of which are In a Beautiful Country (Four Way Books, 2011), a finalist for the UNT Rilke Prize; and National Anthem (Four Way Books, 2008), named one of the five best poetry books of the year by Publishers Weekly.  He’s also Editor of numerous volumes, most recently New European Poets (Graywolf Press, 2008; w/Wayne Miller), Dunstan Thompson: On the Life & Work of a Lost American Master (Unsung Masters Series, 2010; w/D.A. Powell), and Until Everything is Continuous Again: Poets on the Recent Work of W. S. Merwin (WordFarm Editions, 2012; w/Jonathan Weinert).  Among his forthcoming books are Churches (Four Way Books, 2014) and Into English: Essays & Multiple Translations (Graywolf Press, 2014; w/Martha Collins).  He is Professor of English in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston.


Abigail Thomas
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
University Union, Silver Eagle Suite A
8 p.m.
Abigail Thomas, the daughter of renowned science writer Lewis Thomas (The Lives of a Cell, etc.), is the mother of four children and the grandmother of twelve. Her academic education stopped when, pregnant with her oldest daughter, she was asked to leave Bryn Mawr during her first year. She lived most of her life on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and was for a time a book editor and for another time a book agent. Then she started writing for publication.

She has written three works of fiction, Getting Over Tom; An Actual Life; and Herb’s Pajamas; and three memoirs: Safekeeping; A Three Dog Life; and Thinking About Memoir, a guide to writing memoir which doubles as a kind of memoir itself. A Three Dog Life was chosen by the Washington Post and the LA Times as one of the best books of 2006 and has been translated into nine languages.

Her essays and stories have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, O the Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Tin House, Cosmopolitan Magazine, The Ladies’ Home Journal, The Missouri Review, the Alaska Quarterly and other magazines.