THE ROBERT C. WRIGHT MINNESOTA WRITER RESIDENCY

Fiction writer

Luke Rolfes

Fiction writer for adults and children

Marie Myung-Ok Lee

Thursday, November 1, 2007

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

Luke Rolfes is from Polk City, IA, and holds bachelor's degrees in English and Computer Science from Iowa State University. His fiction has appeared in Blue Earth Review and Sketch. He is the 2007 recipient of the Robert C. Wright Award.

Marie Myung-Ok Lee’s novel Somebody’s Daughter was chosen as a Booklist Best Book of the Year. Her fiction has also appeared in The Kenyon Review, Witness, and has been short-listed for the O. Henry awards. She has been a judge for the National Book Awards, a Fulbright Scholar, and MacDowell Colony fellow. She has also published five award-winning young adult novels, including Necessary Roughness, an American Library Association Best Book. She also writes Green Fertility,an eco-health blog, and writes for Natural Health magazine. She is writer-in-residence at Brown University.

See a writing sample by Lee.

Listen to the reading by Rolfes.

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

To learn more about Lee, see this website.

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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, 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.