Fiction writer to read from his newest book Feb. 16

Fiction writer Tom Noyes will read from his newest book, Come by Here: A Novella and Stories, on Marshall University’s Huntington campus Tuesday, Feb. 16. The reading will take place at 8 p.m. in room BE4 of the Memorial Student Center as part of the A.E. Stringer Visiting Writers Series.

Come by Here won the Autumn House Prize in Fiction and the Gold Medal in Short Fiction from the Independent Press Publishers Awards. Noyes is the author of two other story collections, Spooky Action at a Distance and Other Stories and Behold Faith and Other Stories, which was shortlisted for Stanford Libraries’ William Saroyan Award. Noyes has earned degrees in writing from Ohio University, Wichita State University and Houghton College, and his stories have appeared in such journals as American Literary Review, Ascent, Colorado Review, Image, Mid-American Review, New Ohio Review, Pleiades, Sycamore Review, Terrain.org and Third Coast.

He has been awarded grants from The Sustainability Arts Foundation and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Currently, he teaches in the B.F.A. program at Penn State Behrend in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he also serves as assistant director of the humanities and as a consulting editor for the literary magazine Lake Effect.

For more information, contact Dr. Carrie Oeding in Marshall’s Department of English at oeding@marshall.edu.