Award-winning fiction writer Andrea Barrett will read from her work Nov. 5 at 5:30 p.m. in the University Room in Hyde Hall on the UNC campus. The reading is free and open to the public.
Barrett will visit UNC, give a public reading and meet with students in the Living Writers course being offered for the first time this fall by the creative writing program in the department of English and comparative literature.
Barrett is the author of six novels, most recently The Air We Breathe, and two collections of short fiction, Ship Fever, which received the National Book Award, and Servants of the Map, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A MacArthur Fellow, she has also been a fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and has received Guggenheim and NEA fellowships. She lives in western Massachusetts and teaches at Williams College.
Barrett is the final writer to visit this fall as part of the new course. Earlier this semester Tobias Wolff, Cary Holladay and Stuart Dybek visited the Living Writers class and gave public readings from their work.
