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Carlow University
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| For Immediate Release |
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Communications & Community Relations |
| October 26, 2009 |
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Andrew Wilson |
| 09-20 |
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Assistant Director |
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412-578-2095 (phone) |
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412-216-5430 (cell) |
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412-578-2080 (fax) |
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wilsonag@carlow.edu |
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| Carlow University Hosts Award-Winning Author |
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Jaimee Wriston Colbert to Give Reading on November 11
Pittsburgh, Pa. - Carlow University will host author Jaimee Wriston Colbert on Wednesday November 11, 2009 at 12:30 p.m. in room 106 of Aquinas Hall on the Carlow campus. The reading, which is sponsored by the Women's Studies Program and the Division of Humanities at Carlow is free and open to the public.
Colbert will be reading an excerpt from her new novel, Shark Girls, a fictional story about how two women's lives are changed when a child's leg is amputated after a shark attack.
"Jaimee's fiction takes us from Hawaii to Maine, and places in between," says Anne Rashid, PhD, assistant professor of English at Carlow. "She writes about working class characters, with particular attention to women's struggles and journeys. I think the voices in her fiction will certainly speak to the community and I hope to see a good crowd at her readings."
Colbert, who teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Binghamton University, State University of New York, is also the author of a linked stories collection, Dream Lives of Butterflies, which won the gold medal in the 2008 Independent Publisher Awards; a novel in stories, Climbing the God Tree, winner of the Willa Cather Fiction Prize; and the story collection Sex, Salvation, and the Automobile,winner of the Zephyr Publishing Prize. Her stories have appeared in numerous journals, including TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, Tampa Review, Connecticut Review and New Letters, broadcast on "Selected Shorts," archived in "New Letters on the Air," and anthologized. Two recent stories won the Jane's Stories National Short Story Award, 2008, and the Isotope Editors' Fiction Prize, 2009.
Colbert is also giving a reading at the Sphinx Café, located at 405 Atwood Street in Oakland, on November 10, 2009, at 8 p.m.
For more information, please contact Anne Rashid at arashid@carlow.edu.
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About Carlow University
Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carlow University was founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1929. Formerly Carlow College, the institution was granted university status in 2004. Offering both undergraduate and graduate programs, Carlow is the first women-centered university in the state of Pennsylvania, and is celebrating its 80th anniversary in 2009.
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