Bonnie Jo Campbell
Bonnie Jo Campbell--Fiction Writer and Poet
Feb 18, 2010, 7:30 PMTaylor Auditorium in Marsh Hall
National Book Award nominee Bonnie Jo Campbell is coming to campus. Come hear electric storytelling and learn about her writing process.
A prize-winning poet and novelist, Bonnie Jo Campbell’s energy and biting wit make her work laugh out-loud funny and dazzling. You’ll recognize your family members, the former coworkers from those odd jobs you once had, and the ex-spouse who still haunts you. All is weird, immediate and raw in Campbell’s stories and poems. Reading and hearing her work is like white water rafting on the most beautiful and dangerous river you can find. Just hold on tight and see how far she will take you.
Campbell is the author of the novel Q Road, and the story collection Women & Other Animals. Her second story collection, American Salvage was published to acclaim in the Spring of 2009 and has been nominated for a National Book Award. She has won the AWP award for short fiction and a Pushcart prize, and she was named a Barnes & Noble Great New Writer. The New York Times has called her stories “Bitter, but sweetened by humor,” and Publisher’s Weekly said Campbell details, “domestic worlds where Martha Stewart would fear to tread.”
Her fiction has recently been published in Southern Review, Kenyon Review, Alaska Review, Boulevard, Pleiades and Witness. Her essays have appeared in Utne Reader, Ontario Review, Bark Magazine, and Fourth Genre. A dozen of her poems appeared in Midwest Quarterly Review, Spring 2009. She has a second degree black belt in kobudo, and she lives with her husband and donkeys in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She teaches in Pacific University's Low-Residency MFA in Writing program.
Upcoming in Pacific University's Visiting Writers Series:
Claire Davis Thursday, March 11, 2010
Claire Davis' stories and novels have received numerous awards and earned her the honor of being the Oregonian Book Club’s featured author. Her hard-biting prose and unwavering honesty make her fiction and nonfiction capture what it means to be human. Her writing is finely made and full of surprises. We see ourselves in her characters and pull hard for her to show them surviving their mistakes - which they sometimes do. Davis always tells a great story with stunning craft and delivery. When she reads aloud audiences have been known to listen so hard they forget to breathe
All readings in Pacific’s Writers Series are free and take place at 7:30 p.m. at Taylor Auditorium in Marsh Hall on Pacific’s Forest Grove campus. Authors’ books are for sale after the event.
Contact Prof. Kathlene Postma at post9396@pacificu.edu for more information.
Posted by Kathlene Postma (Kathlene_Postma@pacificu.edu) on Oct 26, 2009 at 9:46 AM
Edited by Alana Kansaku-Sarmiento (kans2166@pacificu.edu) on Nov 12, 2009 at 10:05 AM
