Department of English and MFA in Creative Writing Program in collaboration with the
Hofstra Cultural Center present
Great Writers, Great Readings 16th Annual
Series
Photo by Michael R. Dekker
KENNY FRIES received the prestigious Creative Capital literature grant for
In the Province of the Gods. He is the author of Body, Remember: A Memoir and The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory, and the editor of Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out. His books of poems include In the Gardens of Japan, Desert Walking, and Anesthesia. He is a recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Arts & Literary Arts Residency and has received the Creative Artists Fellowship from the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts. He writes the Disability Beat column for How We Get To Next and teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2019, 6:30 P.M.
Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus
Selected author’s titles will be available for sale and signing. Co-sponsored by Disabilities Studies at Hofstra University, Hofstra University Honors College, Center for “Race,” Culture and Social Justice, Department of History, European Studies at Hofstra University, and the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.
Admission is FREE and open to the public. For more information, please call the Hofstra Cultural Center at 516-463-5669 or visit hofstra.edu/gwgr. Join the #HofstraGWGR conversation on social media.
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