A List
1/28/08

K.L. Cook Opens St. Lawrence Writers Series For 2008

CANTON - St. Lawrence University Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing K.L. Cook opens the University's Writers Series for 2008 with a talk on Thursday, February 7, at 8 p.m. in the Common Room of Sykes Residence Hall. It is open to the public, free of charge.

Cook is the author of a collection of stories, Last Call, which won the inaugural Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, and the novel The Girl from Charnelle, which was named a Southwest Book of the Year; an Editor's Choice selection of the Historical Novel Society; a Mississippi Press/Gulf Coast Live Best Book of the Year; and a School Library Journal Best Adult Book for High School Students. He is a professor at Prescott College in Arizona and also teaches in Spalding University's MFA in writing program.

For more information, contact the English department at 315-229-5125.

-30-