Award-winning memoirist and WVU 2022 Sturm Writer in Residence Paul Lisicky will give a reading at 7:30 p.m. Monday (Oct. 17) in Elizabeth Moore Hall.
The reading, open to the public, will be followed by a book signing.
As the Sturm Writer in Residence, Lisicky will spend the week working with eight WVU graduate student writers on their nonfiction.
Lisicky is the author of six books, including one of NPR's Best Books of 2020, "Later: My Life at the Edge of the World," as well as New York Times Editors' Choice, "The Narrow Door."
His work has appeared in The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, Conjunctions, The Cut, Fence, The New York Times, Ploughshares, Tin House, as well as other magazines and anthologies.
He has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the James Michener/Copernicus Society and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where he has served on the Writing Committee since 2000.
Lisicky has taught in the creative writing programs at Cornell University, New York University, Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Texas at Austin and elsewhere. He is currently the director of the MFA Program at Rutgers University-Camden, where he is an associate professor and editor of StoryQuarterly.