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Lee Upton: Visiting Fiction Writer at MCC


Visiting fiction writer, Lee Upton, will arrive on the MCC Brighton Campus on Thursday, November 5, 2015 for a 7PM reading and book-signing in the Flynn Campus Center Forum. The event is free and open to the public. (Parking is available in Lot M.) On Friday, November 6, Upton will present a fiction workshop at College Hour (12-12:50PM) in 8-200. This event is free and open to the MCC community.

Lee Upton is the author of fourteen books.  Her collection of short stories, The Tao of Humiliation, received the BOA Short Fiction Award, and was a finalist for the Paterson Prize. The collection received starred reviews from both Kirkus Reviews and Library Journal and gratifyingly positive reviews from The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Booklist and was selected by Kirkus Reviews for their listing of “The Best Books of 2014” in the category of short story collections.  The Tao of Humiliation was one of eleven collections in the subcategory of short stories that included collections by a slate of international authors, among them Alice Munro, Paul Theroux, Tove Jansson, and Hilary Mantel.   Lee Upton’s sixth collection of poetry, BOTTLE THE BOTTLES THE BOTTLES THE BOTTLES, recipient of the Open Book Award, appeared in May this year from the Cleveland State University Poetry Center.  Her poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, the New Republic, Poetry, Best American Poetry, and in numerous other journals and anthologies.  She is the author of the novella The Guide to the Flying Island; the essay collection Swallowing the Sea: On Writing & Ambition Boredom Purity & Secrecy;  and four books of literary criticism.   In addition, she is the recipient of many awards and honors, including the Pushcart Prize, the National Poetry Series Award, the Lyric Poetry Award, the Miami University Press Award for the Novella, The Marquis Distinguished Teaching Award, the Thomas Roy and Lura Forrest Jones Award, and the Mary Louise Van Artsdalen Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Achievement.   She is the Francis A. March Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence at Lafayette College. 

Tony Leuzzi
English and Philosophy
11/03/2015