MSU ALUMNI READING

Fiction and creative nonfiction writer

Benjamin Drevlow

Fiction and creative nonfiction writer

Nicole Helget

Poet

Jude Nutter

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Talk on craft
3:00 P.M.—CSU Ostrander Auditorium
Reading
7:30 P.M.—CSU Room 253

Benjamin Drevlow grew up in Northern Wisconsin, just off the shores of Lake Superior, where he farmed, played basketball, and acquired various semi-serious, non-life-threatening injuries. He and his ten fully intact and operable fingers currently live in Whitewater, Wisconsin and teach at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. His collection of short stories Bend with the Knees and Other Love Advice from My Father won the 2006 Many Voices Project from New Rivers Press.

Nicole Helget writes fiction and nonfiction. She is the recipient of the Robert Wright Award, the Speakeasy Prize for Prose, the Tamarack Award for Short Story, and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers honor for her memoir, The Summer of Ordinary Ways. The Turtle Catcher, soon to be released, is her first novel. She lives in North Mankato with her family.

Jude Nutter was born North Yorkshire, England, and grew up in northern Germany. Her poems have appeared in numerous national and international journals and she is the recipient of several awards and grants. Her first book-length collection, Pictures of the Afterlife, was published in 2002. The Curator of Silence, her second collection, won the Ernest Sandeen Prize from the University of Notre Dame and was awarded the 2007 Minnesota Book Award in Poetry. A third collection, I Wish I Had A Heart Like Yours, Walt Whitman, is forthcoming. She has been living and working in Minnesota since 1998.

See a writing sample by Drevlow.

See a writing sample by Helget.

See a writing sample by Nutter.

Listen to the interview, craft talk, or reading.

To learn more about Drevlow, see this web site.

To learn more about Helget, see this web site.

To learn more about Nutter, see this web site.

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This year's Good Thunder Reading Series is funded by the Minnesota State University Department of English, the College of Arts and Humanities, the Office of Institutional Diversity, the Nadine B. Andreas Endowment, the Eddice B. Barber Visiting Writer Endowment, the Robert C. Wright Endowment, and individual donors. This activity is made possible in part by a grant provided by the Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council from funds appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature and the McKnight Foundation. This activity is also made possible in part by a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. MSU Library Services and Barnes & Noble Bookstore at Minnesota State offer additional support.