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The Edelstein-Keller Visiting Writer Series presents the fiction writer and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow Ling Ma reading from her work.Presented by the Creative Writing Program in the Department of English, this in-person event is free; no tickets or reservations necessary. ASL provided. For further questions about accessibility services and the venue, please email [email protected] or call 612-626-1528.
Ling Ma's most recent book is Bliss Montage: Stories (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022), which was named a National Indie Bestseller, a New Yorker Best Book of the Year, and a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice. She is also the author of the critically acclaimed debut novel Severance (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018), described as a “meticulous, caustic description of life in big cities and what happens when a terrible pandemic slowly annihilates most of the human population.” Severance won the Kirkus Prize for Fiction, the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award, and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Named a New York Times Notable Book and an NPR Best Book of 2018, it has been translated into seven languages.
Her fellowships and awards include the MacArthur Fellowship, the Story Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Windham-Campell Literature Prize, and a Whiting Award.
Info: cla.umn.edu/english/news-events/events/ling-ma-reading
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310 Pillsbury Dr SE, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Minnesota 55455
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