Author Ron Carlson to Visit USU

Author Ron Carlson will visit Logan for two free, public events at Utah State University. He will read from his work at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 19, in the USU Haight Alumni Center (approximately 650 N. 800 East), then conduct a master class at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, in the USU Family Life Building Caine room (212) (approximately 890 E. 480 N.) Both activities are free and open to the public.

Carlson’s visit is made possible with support from the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation and the USU department of English.

 

Carlson grew up in Salt Lake City and is the author of several books of fiction, most recently the novel “Five Skies.” His short stories have appeared in “Esquire,” “Harper’s,” “The New Yorker,” “Gentlemen’s Quarterly,” “Epoch,” “The North American Review” and other journals, as well as “The Best American Short Stories,” “The O’Henry Prize Series,” “The Pushcart Prize Anthology,” “The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction” and dozens of other anthologies. He is Foundation Professor and Regents’ Professor of English at Arizona State University.

 

Among his awards are a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, the Cohen Prize at Ploughshares and a National Society of Arts and Letters Literature Award.

 

Professor Carlson teaches creative writing at the graduate and undergraduate level, with a distinct emphasis on craft and the process of writing to find the story.

 

 

Contact: Marina Hall (435) 797-3858, marina.hall@usu.edu