| Creative Writing Series: Lydia Conklin — Reading and Q&A Tuesday, March 12, 2024, 4:30 – 6pm |
 Campus Location:Peter J. Shields Library Room:205 and livestreamed Location of Event:UC Davis Campus Event Type:Arts and Entertainment, Free Events, Special Events Presented by:UC Davis Department of English, Creative Writing Master of Fine Arts Program, and the UC Davis Library Link:english.ucdavis.edu… Join us for a reading and Q&A with author Lydia Conklin. Conklin has received a Stegner Fellowship, four Pushcart Prizes, a Rona Ja e Foundation Writer’s Award, a Creative Writing Fulbright in Poland, and numerous other grants and fellowships. Their fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, One Story, McSweeney’s, American Short Fiction, and VQR. They have drawn cartoons for The New Yorker and Narrative Magazine, and graphic fiction for The Believer, Lenny Letter, and the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago. They’ve served as the Helen Zell Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan and are currently an Assistant Professor of Fiction at Vanderbilt University. Their story collection, Rainbow Rainbow, was longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Award and The Story Prize. Their novel, Songs of No Provenance, is forthcoming in 2025. This event is free and for all. Joining the livestream? Please register for the Zoom link.
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