Fiction writer

Leigh Allison Wilson

Thursday, April 17, 2008

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

Leigh Allison Wilson grew up in East Tennessee but has lived in Oswego, New York for twenty years. Her first book, From the Bottom Up, won the Flannery O’Connor Award. Her second, Wind, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Her nonfiction and fiction have appeared in journals such as Harper’s, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Grand Street, Mademoiselle, and The Kenyon Review. Most recently a short story, “Bullhead”, was read on NPR’s “Selected Shorts” program. She teaches at Oswego State University, beside Lake Ontario.

See a writing sample by Wilson.

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

To learn more about Wilson, 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.