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Linda Bierds numerous books of poetry include First Hand (Putnam, 2005), The Seconds (2001), The Profile Makers (1997), The Ghost Trio (1994), which was named a Notable Book Selection by the American Library Association, Heart and Perimeter (1997), The Stillness (1991), and The Dancing (1988).  Bierds has received several Pushcart Prizes, as well as grants and awards from the Seattle Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Poetry Society of America, and the MacArthur Foundation. She has taught English and writing at the University of Washington since 1989, and was the director of its Creative Writing Program from 1997 until 2000. She lives on Bainbridge Island in Washington.

Linda Bierds will read from her work on Thursday, November 19 at 7:00 p.m. in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311).  The reading is free and open to the public.

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Percival Everett is the author of sixteen novels, three collections of short fiction, and two volumes of poetry. He is the recipient of the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction, the Academy Award from an American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the PEN/Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature, and a New American Writing Award. His stories have been included in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and Best American Short Stories. He teaches fiction writing and critical theory and is currently Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.  He lives with his wife and two sons in Los Angeles.

Percival Everett will read from his work on Wednesday, January 27 at 7:00 p.m. in the Wexner Center Film/Video Theatre.  The reading is free and open to the public.

Perri Knize is an award-winning environmental policy reporter whose articles and essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Audubon, Sports Illustrated, Conde Nast Traveler, and Outside. She lives with her husband in Montana. (Photo by Pam Voth)

Perri Knize will read from her work on Monday, April 12 at 7:00 p.m. in the Wexner Center Film/Video Theatre. The reading is free and open to the public.

Harryette Mullen is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Muse & Drudge, published by Singing Horse in 1995. Her other books include Tree Tall Woman (Energy Earth, 1981), Trimmings (Tender Buttons, 1991) and S*PeRM**KT (Singing Horse, 1992). Her short fiction has been published in numerous anthologies. She has worked in the Texas Commission on the Arts' Artists in the Schools program and taught at Cornell University. Harryette Mullen currently teaches African-American literature and Creative Writing at the University of California at Los Angeles.  (Photo by Judy Natal)

Harryette Mullen will read from her work on Tuesday, May 11 at 7:00 p.m. in the Wexner Center Film/Video Theatre.  The reading is free and open to the public