Medaille College’s Write Thing Reading Series event with Lidia Yuknavitch has been canceled for Thursday, February 7.
Yuknavitch directs Chiasmus Press, which she co-founded with Andy Mingo. This independent production company asks the question, “If literature could rise from its own pop-culture, market-driven ashes and remake itself as a comment against the state . . . what would it look like?” Chiasmus answers that question with support for artists and activists, who, like Yuknavitch, are “blurring the line between content and form.”
Yuknavitch has written three short fiction collections: Real to Reel (FC2, 2002), Her Other Mouths (House of Bones Press, 1997) and Liberty’s Excess (FC2, 2000). A book of criticism, Allegories of Violence (Routledge) was published in 2000. Her writing has appeared in Postmodern Culture, Fiction International, Another Chicago Magazine, Zyzzyva, and Other Voices, and in the anthologies Representing Bisexualities (NYU Press) and Third Wave Agenda (University of Minnesota Press). She has been the co-editor of Northwest Edge: Deviant Fictions and the editor of two girls review.
All readings for the Write Thing Reading Series are held in The Library at Huber Hall at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted. All events are free and open to the public; refreshments are occasionally served. For more information, contact Ted Pelton, Ph.D., associate professor of English and director of creative writing, tpelton@medaille.edu.
Medaille College’s Write Thing Reading Series is the premiere visiting artist series among Buffalo’s educational institutions. Each semester, Medaille invites from 3 to 6 published poets and fiction writers to campus for readings. Students at Medaille have the unique chance to meet Pulitzer Prize winners, National Book Award finalists, Guggenheim Fellowship recipients, and some of the most renowned international writers of today – as well as up-and-coming younger writers.
A high resolution image of Ms. Yuknavitch is available.
Additional information at Chiasmus Press.
Hear Yuknavitch speak at the 2007 FC2 Writer’s Edge Conference in Portland.