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Susan Shreve, Steve Orlen to Give Readings March 19 & 26 at UNCG

GREENSBORO – Fiction writer Susan Shreve and poet Steve Orlen will give free readings of their work at 8 p.m. on Wednesdays, March 19 and March 26, respectively, in the Faculty Center of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, located on College Avenue.

The readings are open to the public. Each event will be followed by a reception and book signing, and the writers’ books will be available for purchase before and after the reading. The programs are sponsored by the Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing Program. For more details, call the program at 334-5459 in the UNCG Department of English.

The author of 12 novels, Shreve has published numerous short stories and essays as well as books for children. She has received the John Simon Guggenheim Award and a National Endowment for the Arts Award in Fiction, among others. She is currently the president of P.E.N./Faulkner Foundation and on the faculty of George Mason University, where she founded and directed the Masters of Fine Arts Program in creative writing.

Orlen has published six books of poems including "Separate Creatures," "Sleeping on Doors," "Permission to Speak," "A Place at the Table," "The Bridge of Sighs" and "Kisses." His poems have appeared in numerous magazines and journals and have been anthologized in The Morrow Anthology of Younger American Poets, New American Poets of the '80s, Best American Poetry 1989, and Breadloaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poets. He won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1999, and NEA grants in 1974, 1980, and 1985. Orlen currently teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and in the low-residency program at Warren Wilson College.

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