Jill McCorkle and Lynne Sharon Schwartz

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Thursday, Jan 12 2017, 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM, Tishman Lecture Hall
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Thursday, Jan 12 2017 7:30 PM Thursday, Jan 12 2017 8:30 PM America/New_York Jill McCorkle and Lynne Sharon Schwartz OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Please note later start time. Faculty members Jill McCorkle and Lynne Sharon Schwartz will read as part of the Writers Reading Series. Tishman Lecture Hall Bennington College

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Please note the later start time. Jill McCorkle is the author of 10 books—four story collections and six novels—five of which have been selected as New York Times Notable Books. She is the winner of the New England Book Award, the John Dos Passos Prize for Excellence in Literature, and the North Carolina Award for Literature. 

McCorkle is the author of 10 books—four story collections and six novels—five of which have been selected as New York Times Notable Books. Her latest novel is Life After Life. Two of the stories in Going Away Shoes were included in The Best American Short Stories series. She is the winner of the New England Book Award, the John Dos Passos Prize for Excellence in Literature, and the North Carolina Award for Literature. She was a Briggs Copeland writer-in-residence at Harvard and was one of the original five core faculty members of the Bennington Writing Seminars. She currently teaches writing at North Carolina State University and lives with her husband in Hillsborough, North Carolina.

Lynne Sharon Schwartz is the author of 23 books, including novels, short-story collections, nonfiction, poetry, and translations, which have garnered her National Book Award and PEN Award nominations and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA. Schwartz' most recent books are This Is Where We Came In, a collection of essays , and the novel Two-Part Inventions.  Her third poetry collection, No Way Out But Through, will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press Poetry Series in 2017Her first novel, Rough Strife, was nominated for a National Book Award and the PEN/Hemingway First Novel Award. Other novels include The Writing on the WallIn the Family Way: An Urban ComedyDisturbances in the Field; and Leaving Brooklyn, nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Her latest story collection is Referred Pain, published in 2004.

She is also the author of the memoirs, Not Now,Voyager and Ruined by Reading, the essay collection, Face to Face, and the editor of The Emergence of Memory: Conversations With W.G. Sebald, which includes interviews and essays. Her translations from Italian include A Place to Live: Selected Essays of Natalia Ginzburg, and Smoke Over Birkenau, by Liana Millu. Schwartz has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, and the New York State Foundation for the Arts. Her stories and essays have been reprinted in many anthologies, including The Best American Short StoriesThe O. Henry Prize Stories, and The Best American Essays. She has taught writing and literature at colleges and universities here and abroad. She lives in New York City.