Creative Writer’s Speaker Series
Joe Mackall to read Thursday, March 27
Literary nonfiction writer Joe Mackall will read from his works at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, on Thursday, March 27. Mackall’s public reading is part of the college’s Creative Writer’s Speaker Series.
The reading begins at 6 p.m. in the Larry and Kathryn Smith Chapel; a 4:30 p.m. reception for Mackall in the chapel’s first-floor meeting area precedes the reading. Both events are free and open to the public.
Mackall is co-founder and editor of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and co-editor of The River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize Series (University of Nebraska Press). His books include Plain Secrets: An Outsider Among the Amish (Beacon Press, 2007) and the memoir The Last Street Before Cleveland: An Accidental Pilgrimage (University of Nebraska Press, 2006).
Mackall wrote for The Washington Post for two years, and has been published in many newspapers and magazines; his essays appear in anthologies and literary journals, and have been read on NPR’s Morning Edition.
Mackall holds a B.A. in English from Cleveland State University, an M.A. in English from University of Central Oklahoma, an M.F.A. in fiction from Bowling Green State University, and a Ph.D. in English from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is co-director of the creative writing program and director of the journalism program at Ashland University in Ohio.
Penn State Behrend’s annual Creative Writer’s Speaker Series is produced by the college’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences with support from the Clarence A. and Eugenie Baumann Smith Fund. Also appearing as part of the series will be poets Marvin Bell on Thursday, April 3, and Malena Morling on Thursday, April 24. For more information about the series, phone the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at 814-898-6108.
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