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Dinty Moore(pictured left) is an essayist and author of both fiction and nonfiction books, including his most widely known, The Accidental Buddhist: Mindfulness, Meditation, and Sitting Still. Moore's essays and stories have appeared in The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Harper's Magazine, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Arts & Letters, Gettysburg Review, Utne Reader, and Crazyhorse. Moore edits Brevity, an online journal of creative nonfiction and is on the editorial board of Creative Nonfiction magazine. He is currently a Professor of English at Ohio University.
Joe Mackall(pictured right)Â is the co-founder and editor of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and co-editor of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize Series (in partnership with the University of Nebraska Press). His memoir, The Last Street Before Cleveland: An Accidental Pilgrimage, was published in 2006 by the University of Nebraska Press. His articles have been published in a number of newspapers and magazines including The Washington Post and the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He wrote for The Washington Post for two years. He also served as editor of Cleveland Magazine. His essays have appeared in several anthologies, literary journals, and recently on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition." Mackall has a BA in English from Cleveland State University, an MA in English from the University of C. Oklahoma, an MFA in fiction writing from Bowling Green State University, and a Ph.D. in English from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is co-director of the Creative Writing program and director of the journalism program at Ashland University where he is an associate professor of English and journalism.
Dinty Moore and Joe Mackall will read from their work on Thursday, April 3 at 5:30 pm in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311). The reading is free and open to the public
(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinty_W._Moore and http://www3.ashland.edu/academics/arts_sci/english/Faculty/facpage6.htm)
