AWARD-WINNING WRITER CAROL MUSKE-DUKES TO GIVE READING

Carol Muske-Dukes, one of America's most accomplished writers, will give a reading at Bryn Mawr College on Friday, Feb. 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ely Room, Wyndham Alumnae House.

Free and open to the public, Muske-Dukes' appearance is part of the College's yearlong Creative Writing Program Reading Series, which features award-winning poets, fiction and nonfiction writers, and playwrights. For further information, contact the Office for the Arts at 610-526-5210.

Since the publication of her first book of poems, Camouflage, in 1975, Muske-Dukes has written six other books of poetry, two collections of essays and three novels, two of which have been optioned for feature films.

In her latest volume of poetry, Sparrow, Muske-Dukes writes about her marriage, love and grief in the wake of her actor-husband David Dukes' death in 2000. A finalist for the National Book Award, it received the Yale Review's Smart Foundation Award and the Chapin Award from Columbia University.

Muske-Dukes' work has garnered numerous additional awards and honors, including the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, six Pushcart Awards and the Dylan Thomas Prize. She has also been awarded the Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship. Her more recent collection of essays, Married to the Icepick Killer: A Poet in Hollywood, was named a San Francisco Chronicle "Best Book of the Year."

Muske-Dukes is a regular contributor to The New York Times Book Review and the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and her poems have appeared in several anthologies, including Best American Poems, 100 Great Poems by Women and Mothersongs, among others.

The founding director of the University of Southern California's Ph.D. program in creative writing and literature, she currently is the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at the City University of New York's Baruch College.

Muske-Dukes' reading is sponsored by a gift from Florence Newman Trefethen, a Bryn Mawr alumna from the Class of 1943, by the Lucy Martin Donnelly Women Writers Series Fund and by the Marianne Moore Fund for the Study of Poetry.

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