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FICTION AUTHOR RON CARLSON TO READ HIS WORK AT

SNOW COLLEGE

 

EPHRAIM, Utah—September 13, 2004— Snow College today announced that Ron Carlson, author of eight books of fiction, will be reading parts of his work and answering questions on Thursday, September 23 at 7:30 p.m. in Founders Hall of the Noyes Building on the Ephraim campus. Admission is free and the public is invited to attend.

Ron Carlson was born in Logan, Utah. He grew up in Salt Lake City and attended the University of Utah where he earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees. He is Foundation Professor and Regents’ Professor of English at Arizona State University. Carlson joined ASU’s creative writing faculty in 1986; a year after the master of fine arts degree began. From 1989 to 1996, he directed the M.F.A. program. The following year, U.S. News & World Report ranked it among the nation’s top 20.

Carlson’s most recent selected stories are “A Kind of Flying,” the novel “The Speed of Light,” and the story collection “At the Jim Bridger.” His stories have appeared in Harper’s, Esquire, The New Yorker, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, Epoch, The North American Review and other journals, as well as The Best American Short Stories, The O’Henry Prize Series, The Puswhcart Prize Anthology, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, and dozens of other anthologies.

Among his awards are a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, the Cohen Prize at Ploughshares, and a national Society of Arts and Letters Literature Award.

 

Snow College

Snow College, founded in 1888, serves approximately 3,000 students at its Ephraim campus. The college provides general education and applied technology programs leading to Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, Associate of Applied Science and Associate of Pre-Engineering degrees, and certificates of completion in a number of occupational areas.  Once owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Snow College became a state college in 1932.

 

 

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