By Michelle Hines, University Relations
Contact: (336) 334-5371
Posted 1-18-08
GREENSBORO, NC – Husband and wife novelists Katie Estill and Daniel Woodrell will read Thursday, Feb. 28, at UNCG.
The reading, sponsored by the MFA Writing Program, The Greensboro Review and Spring Garden Press, begins at 8 p.m. in the Faculty Center on College Avenue. The event is free and open to the public; a reception and book signing will follow.
Estill is a graduate of Kenyon College and has an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her first novel, “Evening Would Find Me,” was published by Joyce Carol Oates’ Ontario Review Press. Her most recent novel, “Dahlia’s Gone,” was published by St. Martin’s Press in 2007.
Woodrell left school and enlisted in the Marines the week he turned 17. He received his bachelor’s degree at 27, graduated from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and spent a year on a Michener Fellowship. His five most recent novels were selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and “Tomato Red” won the PEN West Award for the Novel in 1999. “Winter’s Bone” is his eighth novel.
Estill and Woodrell live in the Ozarks.
For more information, contact Terry Kennedy at (336) 334-5459 or terry_kennedy@uncg.edu.
