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11/22/04

MARJORIE SANDOR, TRACY DAUGHERTY IN SLU WRITERS SERIES

CANTON – Marjorie Sandor and Tracy Daugherty will speak and read from recent 
work in an appearance at St. Lawrence University on Thursday, December 2, 
at 8 p.m. in Herring-Cole, as part of the University's Writers Series.
      Sandor is the author of the book of essays The Night Gardener (1999) 
and the book of stories A Night of Music (1989). Her short fiction has been 
anthologized in the Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize and 
The Best of Beacon, and has appeared in numerous literary journals. Awards 
include a 1998 Rona Jaffe Foundation Award for Fiction and the 2000 Oregon 
Book Award for Literary Nonfiction. Sandor teaches creative writing and 
literature at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. 
      Daugherty is the author of four novels, most recently Axeman's Jazz; 
two short story collections; and a volume of personal essays, Five Shades 
of Shadow. His new story collection, Late in the Standoff, will be published 
in 2005 by Southern Methodist University Press. His work has appeared in 
The New Yorker, Georgia Review, Southern Review, Chelsea and many other 
journals. Daugherty has twice won the Oregon Book Award and in 1998 he was 
awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He directs the MFA 
Program in Creative Writing at Oregon State University and is a member of 
the MFA faculty in the Warren Wilson Program for Writers.

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