Stokes Center for Creative Writing to Host Reading Event

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Posted on October 18, 2017

Alice Jackson

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Nathan Poole, assistant professor of creative writing, will read from his two books of fiction at 6:30 p.m., on Thursday, Oct. 19, at the University of South Alabama Faculty Club.

The event with Poole, who recently joined the faculty, is sponsored by the department of English and the Stokes Center for Creative Writing.

Poole is the author of two books, 鈥淔ather Brother Keeper,鈥� a collection of stories selected by Edith Pearlman for the 2013 Mary McCarthy Prize and long-listed for the international Frank O鈥機onnor Award, and 鈥淧athkiller as the Holy Ghost,鈥� a novella selected by Benjamin Percy as the winner of the 2014 Quarterly West Novella Contest.

Stories by Poole have appeared in various national journals, including 鈥淓cotone,鈥� 鈥淭he Kenyon Review,鈥� 鈥淣arrative Magazine,鈥� 鈥淚mage,鈥� 鈥淭he Chattahoochee Review鈥� and the 鈥淪aturday Evening Post.鈥� He is a recipient of the Narrative Prize, a Milton Fellowship at Seattle Pacific University, a Joan Beebe Teaching Fellowship at Warren Wilson College and a Tennessee Williams Scholarship at the Sewanee Writers鈥� Conference.

He holds degrees from the Warren Wilson MFA program and the University of South Carolina.

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