“… Unferth swerves from the
mundane to the extraordinary, from biting to soaringly celebratory, often in a
single sentence.”— The New York Times Book Review
CONWAY, Ark. (September 21, 2018) – Deb Olin Unferth will visit
Hendrix College as this year’s first Murphy Visiting Writer on October 2, 2018.
At 7:30 p.m. in Reves Recital Hall, Unferth will read and discuss some of her
award-winning works. This event is free and open
to the public and will be followed by a reception and book signing in
Trieschmann Gallery.
Deb Olin Unferth
is the author of the memoir Revolution:
The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War, two short story
collections entitled Minor Robberies
and Wait Till you see me Dance, the
graphic novel I, Parrot, and the
novel Vacation. Unferth’s work also
appears in various journals and literary magazines, such as Harper’s, The Paris Review, McSweeney’s,
Tin House, and many others.
Unferth’s Revolution was a finalist for the
National Book Critics Circle Award, and Vacation
was a winner of the Cabell First Novel Award. In addition to these honorable
achievements, Unferth has received three Pushcart Prizes and a grant from
Creative Capital for Innovative Literature.
Having received a
M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Syracuse and a B.A. in Philosophy from the
University of Colorado, Deb Olin Unferth is currently an Associate Professor of
English/Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Austin, where she
teaches in the New Writer’s Project M.F.A. program at the Michener Center for
Writers. Unferth is the founding coordinator of a creative writing certificate
program at the John B. Connally Unit, a penitentiary in southern Texas. She believes
in the power of education to change lives.
This event is sponsored by the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation
Programs in Literature and Language, which are designed to enhance and enrich
the study and teaching of literature and language at Hendrix College. For more
information about this and future events, please contact Henryetta Vanaman,
501-450-4597 or vanaman@hendrix.edu.
About Hendrix College
A private liberal arts college in Conway, Arkansas, Hendrix
College consistently earns recognition as one of the country’s leading liberal
arts institutions, and is featured in Colleges That Change Lives: 40
Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges. Its academic
quality and rigor, innovation, and value have established Hendrix as a fixture
in numerous college guides, lists, and rankings. Founded in 1876, Hendrix has
been affiliated with the United Methodist Church since 1884. To learn more,
visit www.hendrix.edu.