Melanie Rae Thon’s most recent books include the novel The Voice of the River (FC2, 2011) and In This Light: New and Selected Stories (Graywolf, 2011). Her other novels are Sweet Hearts, Meteors in August, and Iona Moon, and she has also published two more story collections: First, Body and Girls in the Grass. Thon’s work has been included in Best American Short Stories (1995, 1996), three Pushcart Prize Anthologies (2003, 2006, 2008), and the O. Henry Prize Stories (2006). She is a recipient of a Whiting Writer’s Award (1997), two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1992 and 2008), and a Writer’s Residency from the Lannan Foundation (2005). In 2009, she was Virgil C. Aldrich fellow at the Tanner Humanities Center. Thon’s fiction has been translated into French, Italian, German, Spanish, Croatian, Finnish, Japanese, and Farsi. Originally from Montana, Thon now lives in Salt Lake City, where she teaches in the Creative Writing and Environmental Humanities programs at the University of Utah.
March 29: Bonnie J. Rough (7:30pm, ENGL 001)
Bonnie J. Rough is the author of the new memoir Carrier: Untangling the Danger in My DNA (Counterpoint), winner of a 2011 Minnesota Book Award. Her essays have appeared in many magazines, literary journals, and newspapers, including The New York Times, The Sun, Huffington Post, The Iowa Review, Ninth Letter, Identity Theory, and Brevity. They have also appeared in several anthologies, including Modern Love: 50 True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit, and Devotion (Three Rivers Press), The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 1 (W.W. Norton), and The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007 (Houghton Mifflin). Bonnie holds an MFA from the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. She has taught at The Loft Literary Center and is now an honored visiting artist on the faculty of the Ashland University MFA program. Her many awards include a Bush Artist Fellowship, a McKnight Artist Fellowship for Writers, and a Minnesota State Arts Board grant.
April 12: Rhett Iseman Trull (7:30pm, ENGL 001)
Rhett Iseman Trull’s first book of poetry, The Real Warnings (Anhinga Press, 2009), received the 2008 Anhinga Prize for Poetry, the 2010 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award, the 2010 Brockman Campbell Award, and the 2010 Oscar Arnold Young Award. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Best New Poets 2008, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, and other publications. Her other awards include prizes from the Academy of American Poets and the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation. She received her BA from Duke University and her MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she was a Randall Jarrell Fellow. She and her husband publish Cave Wall in Greensboro, North Carolina.
All readings, unless noted, are sponsored by Iron Horse Literary Review and the Texas Tech University Graduate School.
Readings
Iron Horse Reading Series, Spring 2012
Februay 16: Melanie Rae Thon (7:30pm, ENGL 001)
Photo by Andi Olsen.
Melanie Rae Thon’s most recent books include the novel The Voice of the River (FC2, 2011) and In This Light: New and Selected Stories (Graywolf, 2011). Her other novels are Sweet Hearts, Meteors in August, and Iona Moon, and she has also published two more story collections: First, Body and Girls in the Grass. Thon’s work has been included in Best American Short Stories (1995, 1996), three Pushcart Prize Anthologies (2003, 2006, 2008), and the O. Henry Prize Stories (2006). She is a recipient of a Whiting Writer’s Award (1997), two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1992 and 2008), and a Writer’s Residency from the Lannan Foundation (2005). In 2009, she was Virgil C. Aldrich fellow at the Tanner Humanities Center. Thon’s fiction has been translated into French, Italian, German, Spanish, Croatian, Finnish, Japanese, and Farsi. Originally from Montana, Thon now lives in Salt Lake City, where she teaches in the Creative Writing and Environmental Humanities programs at the University of Utah.
March 29: Bonnie J. Rough (7:30pm, ENGL 001)
April 12: Rhett Iseman Trull (7:30pm, ENGL 001)
All readings, unless noted, are sponsored by Iron Horse Literary Review and the Texas Tech University Graduate School.