THE NADINE B. ANDREAS VISITING WRITER RESIDENCY

Creative nonfiction writer and 2007-08 Andreas Graduate Assistant

Bronson Lemer

Poet and 2007-08 Andreas Visiting Writer

Li-Young Lee

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

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

Bronson Lemer grew up in North Dakota. He served for six years with the North Dakota Army National Guard, including deployments to Kosovo and Iraq. His essay “The Mustache Race” was published in the Random House anthology Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers, and his essay “Olympic Hopefuls” received honorable mention in the Association of Writers and Writing Program’s 2007 Intro Project. His writing has also appeared in The Reykjavik Grapevine, Static Magazine, and Blue Earth Review. He is currently finishing a memoir about his experience in the military.

Li-Young Lee is the author of three critically acclaimed books of poetry, including Book of My Nights (BOA Editions, 2001). His earlier collections are Rose (BOA, 1986), winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University, The City in Which I Love You (BOA, 1991), the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection; and a memoir entitled The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (Simon and Schuster, 1995), which received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.  A new volume, Behind My Eyes, will be published in January 2008. Lee's honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Lannan Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, as well as grants from the Illinois Arts Council, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. In 1988 he received the Writer's Award from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation. He lives in Chicago with his wife Donna, and their two sons.

See a writing sample by Lee.

Listen to the reading by Lemer.

Listen to the interview, craft talk, or reading with Lee.

To learn more about Lee, 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 Eddice B. Barber Visiting Writer Endowment, the Robert C. Wright Endowment, the Nadine B. Andreas 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.