Award-Winning Writer Amy Hempel to Share Her Short Stories

Free public presentation scheduled for Jan. 30 at The College of Wooster

WOOSTER, Ohio — American short-story writer Amy Hempel will share excerpts from her award-winning works on Monday, Jan. 30, at The College of Wooster. The noted author and educator will deliver a free public presentation at 7 p.m. in Lean Lecture Room of Wishart Hall (303 E. University St.). She will also speak to a master class at 4 p.m. in Room 237 of Kauke Hall (400 E. University St.).

A recipient of the Hobson Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Hempel received a Fellowship from United States Artists, an Ambassador Book Award, and the PEN Malamud Award for Short Fiction. In addition, The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel (2006), which includes stories from her four previous books, was selected as one of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year.

Hempel’s first collection, Reasons to Live, was published in 1985 and features "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried,” which has become one of the most anthologized stories of the past 25 years. Her other collections are At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom (1990), Tumble Home (1997), and The Dog of the Marriage (2005). She also writes for Vanity Fair, GQ, Harper’s Magazine, Playboy, and other noteworthy publications.

Born in Chicago, Hempel resides in New York and teaches creative writing at Harvard. In addition, she taught fiction at The New School in the Low-Residency MFA Program in Writing at Bennington College as well as creative writing at Princeton. She is also a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review.

Additional information about Hempel’s visit is available by phone (330-263-2575) or e-mail.

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