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.
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Kalani Pickhart s debut novel, set in Ukraine in 2013 and 2014 amid protests against its corrupt then-president, is experiencing strong sales and media attention, leading its publisher, Two Dollar Radio, to push up print runs.
As a part of the 2022 Barbara and David Zalaznick Reading Series, author Ling Ma MFA ’15 will read from her collection of fictional works in a Klarman Hall event next Thursday.