MSU ALUMNI READING

Fiction writer

Robert David Clark

Poet

Gwen Hart

Fiction writer

Thomas Maltman

Thursday, October 11, 2007

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

Robert David Clark was born and raised in a small town in central Iowa. In 1968 he was drafted into the Army and served a tour in Vietnam as an infantryman. In 1971 he enrolled at Minnesota State University, Mankato. While attending MSU he won the school’s Robert C. Wright writing scholarship, and an Associated Writing Programs Intro award for fiction. He has been published in Indiana Review, Highground Magazine, and Minnesota River Review. Flowers Of The Dinh Ba Forest is his first published novel. He lives in Mankato, Minnesota.

Gwen Hart holds degrees from Wellesley College, Hollins University, and Minnesota State University. Her chapbook Losing Ohio was a part of Finishing Line Press’s New Women’s Voices Series in 2002. Her second chapbook, Dating the Invisible Man, won The Ledge Press contest in 2004, and her book Lost and Found was published by David Robert Books in 2006.

Tom Maltman’s essays, poetry, and fiction have been published in Briar Cliff Review, Georgetown Review, Great River Review, and Under the Sun. He currently teaches creative writing and literature at Silver Lake College in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The Night Birds is his first novel.

See a writing sample by Clark. To learn more about him, see this website.

See a writing sample by Hart. To learn more about her, see this website.

See a writing sample by Maltman. To learn more about him, see this website.

Listen to the interview, craft talk, or reading with Clark, Hart, and Maltman.

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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.