CELEBRATED FICTION WRITER ANTONYA NELSON TO READ

Novelist and short-story writer Antonya Nelson is giving a reading at Bryn Mawr College on Tuesday, March 22, at 7:30 p.m. in Thomas Great Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Named one of the "20 young fiction writers for the new millennium" by The New Yorker, Nelson is the author of four short-story collections and three novels: Living to Tell, Nobody's Girl and Talking in Bed, winner of the 1996 Heartland Award in fiction. In a recent review, The Washington Post described Nelson as a writer "of piercing intelligence, a first-rate stylist, and an explorer of language."

A native of Wichita, Kan., Nelson was a 2000-01 Guggenheim Fellow and received the prestigious 2003 Rea Award for Short Story. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Harpers, Redbook and a number of anthologies including Prize Stories, the O. Henry Awards and The Best American Short Stories.

Nelson's reading at Bryn Mawr is sponsored by the Lucy Martin Donnelly Women Writers Series Fund. This event is part of a yearlong Creative Writing Program Reading Series featuring acclaimed novelists, short-fiction writers and poets.

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