The School of Humanities and Sciences and the Department of Writing are pleased to present National Book Award Finalist in fiction Sarah Shun-lien Bynum as part of this semester’s Distinguished Visiting Writers Series. She will read from her work at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, April 13th in Klingenstein Lounge, Campus Center. The reading is free and open to everyone.
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is the author of two novels, Ms. Hempel Chronicles, a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award, and Madeleine Is Sleeping, a finalist for the 2004 National Book Award and winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. She was recently named one of “20 Under 40” fiction writers by The New Yorker.
Her fiction has appeared in several magazines and anthologies, including The New Yorker, Tin House, The Georgia Review, and The Best American Short Stories 2004 and 2009. The recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, she directs the MFA program in writing at the University of California, San Diego.
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