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4/16/07

SLU WRITERS SERIES WRAPS UP YEAR WITH TRUDY LEWIS

CANTON - St. Lawrence University Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing Trudy Lewis will give the final presentation of this year's Writers Series, on Thursday, April 26, at 8 p.m. in the Common Room of Sykes Residence Hall. The event is open to the public, free of charge.

Lewis is the author of a short-story collection, The Bones of Garbo (Ohio State University Press, 2003), for which she was awarded the Sandstone Prize in Short Fiction, and a novel, Private Correspondences (Northwestern University Press, 1994), winner of the William Goyen Award for Fiction. Her work has appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Best American Short Stories, Chelsea, Fence, Five Points, Iris, Meridian, New England Review, New Stories from the South, Third Coast, Witness and other publications. Her story "Geographic Tongue" received the Lawrence Foundation Award from Prairie Schooner. Lewis is currently at work on a historical novel about 19th-century factory operatives in Lowell, Massachusetts.

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

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