English Reading Series

Winter 2012 • F 12:00–12:50 P.M. • 1080 HBLL (auditorium)
Dr. Patrick Madden • T 1:30–4:00 P.M. • 4142 JFSB • 422-6439 • madden@byu.edu
TA Scott Morris • T/Th 12:00–1:30 P.M. • 3004 JKB • ers.byu@gmail.com

Schedule

Jan 6 no class
Jan 13 class meeting
Jan 20 Lara Candland  ( p )
Jan 27 Melanie Rae Thon  ( f )
Feb 3 Steven L. Peck  ( f )
Feb 10 Danielle Deulen  ( nf / p )
Feb 17 Theodore & Annie Deppe  ( p )
Feb 25 Darrell Spencer  ( f )
Mar 2 No Reading
Mar 9 Eric Freeze  ( f )
Mar 16 Steven Church  ( nf )
Mar 23 Wyn Cooper  ( p )
Mar 30 Steven J Stewart  ( p )
Apr 6 Students  ( p/ f /nf )

Biographies

LARA CANDLAND is the author of a book of poems, Alburnum of the Green and Living Tree. Her work has appeared in Fence, The Colorado Review, Barrow Street, The Quarterly, and other journals. She is a co-founder and chief librettist for Seattle Experimental Opera.

MELANIE RAE THON’s most recent books are the novel The Voice of the River and In This Light: New and Selected Stories. She is also the author of the novels Sweet Hearts, Meteors in August, and Iona Moon, and the story collections First, Body and Girls in the Grass. Thon’s work has been included in Best American Short Stories (1995, 1996), three Pushcart Prize anthologies (2003, 2006, 2008), and O. Henry Prize Stories (2006).

STEVE PECK is an evolutionary ecologist at Brigham Young University where he teaches History and Philosophy of Science and Bioethics. His publishing history includes lots of scientific work, including articles in American Naturalist, Newsweek, Evolution, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Biological Theory, Agriculture and Human Values, Biology & Philosophy, and an edited volume on environmental stewardship. In addition to his novel The Scholar of Moab, he has two novels in press: a juvenile fantasy called the Rift of Ryme, to be published this year by Cedar Fort Press, and a new edition of A Short Stay in Hell by Strange Violins Editions.

DANIELLE CADENA DEULEN is a poet and essayist. Her first collection of poems, Lovely Asunder, won the Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize and was published with the University of Arkansas Press. Her first collection of essays, The Riots, won the AWP Prize in Creative Nonfiction and was published with the University of Georgia Press also in 2011. Formerly, she was a Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has received three Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry prizes (2007, 2008, 2010) and a Virginia Center for Creative Arts fellowship.

THEODORE DEPPE is the author of three books of poems (Cape Clear: New and Selected Poems; The Wanderer King; and Children of the Air) and a chapbook of poems (Necessary Journeys). His work has been recognized by two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and by grants from the Connecticut Council on the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. He was awarded a Pushcart Prize in 1999. His poems have been published in many journals including Poetry, Harper’s Magazine, The Kenyon Review, Poetry Ireland Review, The Southern Review, Boulevard, Ploughshares, AGNI Review, Crazy Horse, The Massachusetts Review, and The New England Review.

ANNIE DEPPE is the author of Sitting in the Sky. She has a poem in the Forward Book of Poetry 2004 (the English / Irish equivalent of the Pushcart) and Sitting in the Sky was named one of the best books of the year by Philip Hobsbaum. She teaches poetry at Eastern Connecticut State University.

DARRELL SPENCER is the author of four short story collections, including Bring Your Legs with You, winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize; Caution: Men in Tress, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award in Short Fiction; Our Secret's Out; and A Woman Packing a Pistol. He also is the author of the novel One Mile Past Dangerous Curve. In addition to his short story collections and novel, Spencer has been published in numerous literary journals, including Quarterly West, Epoch, Gettysburg Review, Indiana Review, Cimarron Review, Prairie Schoner, and Permafrost.  He currently is a professor of English at Southern Utah University.

ERIC FREEZE’s stories, essays, and translations have been published in a variety of literary journals including Boston Review, The Southern Review, New Ohio Review, and Tampa Review. His first book, a collection of short stories titled Dominant Traits, was published in 2012 by Dufour Editions. He teaches English at Wabash College and recently received a Canada Council grant to work on a novel.

STEVEN CHURCH earned his MFA at Colorado State University and his BA in philosophy from the University of Kansas. He’s the author of The Day After The Day After: My Atomic Angst, Theoretical Killings: Essays and Accidents, and The Guinness Book of Me: a Memoir of Record. His essays and stories have been published in places such as Fourth Genre, Colorado Review, Brevity, The Pinch, The North American Review, River Teeth, Post Road, Quarter After Eight, Quarterly West, and many others. He’s been nominated 6 times for the Pushcart Prize and was awarded the Colorado Book Award for The Guinness Book of Me. He teaches at Fresno State University and is a founding editor of the literary magazine The Normal School.

WYN COOPER has published four books of poems: The Country of Here Below, The Way Back, Postcards from the Interior, and Chaos is the New Calm, as well as a chapbook, Secret Address. His poems,
stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Slate, Crazyhorse, Agni, The Southern Review, and more than 60 other magazines. His poems are included in 25 anthologies of contemporary poetry, including Poetry: An Introduction, The Mercury Reader, Outsiders, and Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms.

STEVEN J STEWART was awarded a 2005 Literature Fellowship for Translation by the National Endowment for the Arts. His book of translations of Spanish poet Rafael Pérez Estrada, Devoured by the Moon, which was published by Hanging Loose in 2004, was a finalist for the 2005 PEN-USA translation award. His book of the selected Microfictions of Argentinean writer Ana María Shua was recently published by the University of Nebraska Press. He currently lives in Rexburg and teaches at BYU–Idaho.