Writer's Voice presents fiction writer Patricia Ann McNair, Mar. 28

Writer’s Voice presents

Patricia Ann McNair

Fiction

Thursday, 28 March

Colusa 110

7:30 p.m.

Patricia Ann McNair has lived 98 percent of her life in the Midwestern United States. She’s managed a gas station, sold pots and pans door to door, tended bar and breaded mushrooms, worked on the trading floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and taught aerobics. Today she is an Associate Professor in the Fiction Writing Department of Columbia College Chicago, where she received a nomination for the Carnegie Foundation’s US Professor of the Year. McNair’s collection of short stories, The Temple of Air, was called “a beautiful book, intense and original,” by Audrey Niffenegger, and has received a number of honors, among them the winner of Southern Illinois University’s Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award and the Society of Midland Authors Finalist Award.

Free & open to the public.

More information: Rob Davidson, 898-6372, rgdavidson@csuchico.edu, or visit our web page: http://www.csuchico.edu/engl/events/writers-voice.shtml

This event is supported by CSU-Chico’s Writer’s Voice, the Department of English, and the College of Humanities and Fine Arts.