FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2007
Contact: Dave Wellman, Director of Communications, (304) 696-7153
 

Writer Tom Bailey to read from his work Nov. 15 at Marshall

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Writer Tom Bailey will read from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15 in Room 2W16 of the Memorial Student Center on Marshall University’s Huntington campus.

Bailey, who grew up in West Virginia and attended Marshall, has been widely recognized for his work.  His recent novel, The Grace That Keeps This World, has been praised in Publisher’s Weekly as an accomplished novel with “the validity of deeply felt truths.” His new novel is Cotton Song, called “graceful and fluid” by the Washington Post.  He also is the author of a collection of short stories, Crow Man, as well as non-fiction works including A Short Story Writer’s Companion.

Widely published in literary journals and magazines, including Double Take, his fiction has been reprinted in such anthologies as The Pushcart Prizes and New Stories From the South and cited in The Best American Short Stories. He received a Newhouse Award from the John Gardner Foundation and was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction.

Bailey teaches in the creative writing program at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania.

His appearance is sponsored by the Marshall English Department, the College of Liberal Arts, the Graduate College and the Office of Academic Affairs.  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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