Beck Lecture Series - Spring 2009

Visiting Writers

Andy Mozina • GLCA • Fiction Winner

February 3, 2009 · 8:00 p.m.
Barney Davis Board Room

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***CONVOCATION***

Steven Mailloux • Critic

Co-sponsored by the Communication Department

February 24, 2009 · 7:00 p.m.
3rd Floor Slayter Hall

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Ellen Bryant Voigt • Poet

March 3, 2009 • 8:00 p.m.
Barney Davis Board Room

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Alison Stine • Poet

April 1, 2009 • 3:30 p.m.
Barney Davis Board Room

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Lee Martin • Fiction/Nonfiction Writer

April 7, 2009 • 8:00 p.m.
Barney Davis Board Room

Biographies

Andy Mozina is the author of the short fiction collection The Women Were Leaving the Men which was the 2008 winner of the GLCA New Writers Award for Fiction, and a finalist for the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. This collection received special mention in The Pushcart Prize, 2006 edition and was named a distinguished story in The Best American Short Stories 2005. His short stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines including Tin House, the Massachusetts Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Fence, West Branch, Beloit Fiction Journal, and the Florida Review. He is also the author of Joseph Conrad and the Art of Sacrifice. Andy Mozina is associate professor of English and chair of the English Department at Kalamazoo College.

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Steven Mailloux is the Chancellor's Professor of Rhetoric at UC Irvine in the School of Humanities. His research interests include the history and theories of rhetoric, hermeneutics, contemporary critical theory, and U.S. cultural studies. His publications include Disciplinary Identities: Rhetorical Paths of English, Speech, and Composition (2006), Reception Histories: Rhetoric, Pragmatism and American Cultural Politics (1998), Rhetorical Power (1989), and Interpretive Conventions: The Reader in the Study of American Fiction (1982).

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Ellen Bryant Voigt is the author of several collections of poetry, including Shadow of Heaven, a finalist for the National Book Award, and Kyrie, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She has received numerous grants and awards, including a Pushcart Prize. Voigt served as Vermont's state poet from 1999-2003.

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Alison Stine is a Denison graduate (2000). OHIO VIOLENCE, her first book, winner of the 2008 Vassar Miller Prize, will be published by the University of North Texas Press. She is also the author of the chapbook LOT OF MY SISTER, winner of the Wick Prize (Kent State University Press, 2001). Her stories, essays, and poems have been published in Poetry, The Paris Review, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, and many others. Her awards include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and a 2008 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. She has taught at Fordham University, Grand Valley State University, and Gettysburg College, and currently teaches at the Reynolds Young Writers' Workshop at Denison University, and is a PhD Candidate at Ohio University.

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Lee Martin is the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Bright Forever; a novel, Quakertown; a story collection, The Least You Need to Know, and two memoirs,  From Our House and Turning Bones. He has won a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Ficiton, a Lawrence Foundation Award, and the Glenna Luschei Prize. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he directs the creative writing program at The Ohio State University.

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