The fiction writer Chinelo Okparanta, winner of the O. Henry Prize and a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, will open the Smith Creative Writers Reading Series at Penn State Behrend on Oct. 6.
This February, in conjunction with the University of Iowa’s 175th anniversary, the Presidential Lecture Series will feature presentations from three distinguished UI faculty members Craig Kletzing, Christopher Merrill, and Patricia Winokur.