Events

The Rice Department of English and the Fondren Library kick off this year's Cherry Reading Series with a visit from poet and prize-winning essayist Eula Biss at Brazos Bookstore. Biss is the author of Note's From No Man's Land: American Essays, which received the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. She holds a BA in nonfiction writing from Hampshire College and an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. She is currently an Artist in Residence at Northwestern University, where she teaches nonfiction writing, and she is a founding editor of Essay Press, a new press dedicated to innovative nonfiction. Her essays have recently appeared in The Best Creative Nonfiction and the Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Nonfiction as well as in The Believer, Gulf Coast, Columbia, Ninth Letter, the North American Review, the Bellingham Review, the Seneca Review, and Harper’s. Learn more by clicking on the links below. http://www.eulabiss.net/ http://www.believermag.com/issues/200802/?read=article_biss http://www.identitytheory.com/nonfiction/biss_relations.php