MSU FACULTY READING

Fiction writer

Terry Davis

Fiction and creative nonfiction writer

Diana Joseph

Creative nonfiction writer and poet

Richard Terrill

Thursday, April 16, 2009

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

Born in 1947, Terry Davis grew up in Spokane, Washington, where he wrestled for Shadle Park High School. He later attended Eastern Washington University, the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop, and Stanford University, where he received a Wallace Stegner Literary Fellowship. He has taught and coached wrestling at the high school level, as well as taught writing at East Carolina University and here at Minnesota State University, Mankato. His first book, Vision Quest, was made into a popular film starring Matthew Modine. A new edition of the novel has just been released to go along with recent re-releases of his second and third novels, Mysterious Ways and If Rock and Roll Were a Machine.

Diana Joseph’s collection of short stories Happy or Otherwise was published by Carnegie Mellon University Press in 2003. Her memoir, I’m Sorry You Feel That Way, is forthcoming from Putnam in 2009. She has taught at Minnesota State University since 2005.

Richard Terrill is the author of Coming Late to Rachmaninoff, winner of the Minnesota Book Award for poetry; Saturday Night in Baoding: A China Memoir, winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award for nonfiction; and Fakebook: Improvisations on a Journey Back to Jazz. His awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Wisconsin Arts Board, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and Jerome Foundation, along with three Fulbright fellowships. He has taught at MSU since 1991.

See a writing sample by Davis.

See a writing sample by Joseph.

See a writing sample by Terrill.

Listen to the interview, craft talk, or reading.

To learn more about Davis, see this web site.

To learn more about Joseph, see this web site.

To learn more about Terrill, 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.