UA’s Bankhead Visiting Writers Series Welcomes Michelle Richmond, Lynn Pruett

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The University of Alabama’s Bankhead Visiting Writers Series will host authors Michelle Richmond and Lynn Pruett on Oct. 3, 2002 at 7:30 p.m. in 205 Smith Hall.

Richmond is the author of the short story collection “The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress,” which won the Associated Writing Program Award in Short Fiction for 2000. Her stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, CutBank, Other Voices, The Florida Review and other literary journals. She was also a founding member of Marr’s Field Journal at UA where she studied as an undergraduate.

She received a master of fine arts from the University of Miami, where she was a Michener Fellow. Richmond currently teaches in the MFA program at The University of San Francisco. MacAdam/Cage will publish her novel, “Dream of the Blue Room,” in the spring of 2003.

Lynn Pruett has published stories in American Voice, Louisville Review, and Southern Exposure, as well as the anthologies “Telling Stories,” and forthcoming in “Writing Delaware” (’03) and “The Writing Group” (’03). She was the recipient of a Tennessee Woman’s Scholarship to the Sewanee Writers Conference and was awarded a Kentucky Arts Council Fellowship.

She earned her bachelor of arts at Mt. Holyoke College and her master of fine arts in fiction from UA. She currently teaches fiction at the University of Kentucky. Grove/Atlantic Press published her debut novel, “Ruby River,” this month.

Pruett will also be present for a book signing of “Ruby River” in the University Supply Store at 11:30 a.m. on Oct. 3. The Supply Store is located in the basement of the Ferguson Center on the UA campus.

Richmond and Pruett will host an informal talk, “Life after the MFA,” in 301 Morgan Hall at 12 p.m. on Oct. 4.

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 UA’s creative writing program at 205/348-0766.