FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, Oct. 15, 2007
Contact: Dave Wellman, Director of Communications (304) 696-7153

Award-winning West Virginia writer to appear at Marshall

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Writer Ann Pancake will read from her work at 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 22 in Room 2W16 of the Memorial Student Center on Marshall University’s Huntington campus.

Pancake, a native of Romney, W.Va., has been widely recognized for her work. Her collection of short stories, Given Ground, won the 2000 Bakeless Award. Her novel, Strange as This Weather Has Been, about mountaintop removal mining in southern West Virginia, has just been published by Shoemaker & Hoard and reviewed in The New York Times Book Review.

She also is the recipient of a Whiting Foundation Award, an NEA Grant, a Pushcart Prize, the Glasgow Prize, and writing fellowships from the states of Washington, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Her fiction and essays have appeared in journals and anthologies such as Glimmer Train, Virginia Quarterly Review, Massachusetts Review, Shenandoah and New Stories from the South.

She holds a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Washington and now teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University.

Pancake’s appearance is sponsored by the Marshall English department and the College of Liberal Arts.  It is free to the public.

For more information, call Art Stringer in Marshall’s English department at (304) 696-2403.

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