Martone and Rawlings to Read as Part of UA’s Bankhead Visiting Writers Series

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Michael Martone and Wendy Rawlings will read from their individual works on Thursday, Nov. 1, at 7:30 p.m. in 205 Smith Hall as part of this year’s Bankhead Visiting Writers Series at The University of Alabama. The event is free and open to the public.

Martone, a member of UA’s creative writing faculty, is the author of five books of short fiction: “Seeing Eye,” “Pensées: The Thoughts of Dan Quayle,” “Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler’s List,” “Safety Patrol,” and “Alive and Dead in Indiana.” He is co-editor of “The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction” and has edited two collections of essays about the Midwest: “A Place of Sense: Essays in Search of the Midwest,” and “Townships: Pieces of the Midwest.” “The Flatness and Other Landscapes,” a collection of Martone’s own essays about the Midwest, won the AWP Prize for Creative Nonfiction in 1998. Martone’s most recent work, “The Blue Guide to Indiana,” will be published in late 2001.

Rawlings is the newest member of the creative writing faculty at UA, and her first collection of short stories, “Come Back Irish,” which won the 2000 Sandstone Prize for Short Fiction, will be published by Ohio State University Press in 2001. She has won fiction awards from Atlantic Monthly, New Letters, Western Humanities Review, and Prism International and has published nonfiction in the Bellingham Review.

The Bankhead Visiting Writers Series is made possible by an endowment from the Bankhead Foundation, The University of Alabama’s program in creative writing, the department of English, and the College of Arts and Sciences. For more information, please contact the creative writing program at 205/348-0766.