“Archive to Art Work:The Pains and Pleasures of Historical Fiction“
Mawby Room, Kellogg College,
62 Banbury Road
5 pm (refreshments) for 5.30 pm
All are welcome and no bookings are necessary
Sabina Murray grew up in Australia and the Philippines. She is the author of two short story collections, Tales of the New World, a New York Times editor’s choice, and The Caprices, winner of the 2002 PEN/Faulkner award. She is the author of the novels Forgery, A Carnivore’s Inquiry, Slow Burn, and Valiant Gentlemen, forthcoming in November 2016. Murray is a former Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, Bunting Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, Guggenheim Fellow, and Harmsworth Lecturer in American Arts and Letters at the RAI. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and the Fred Brown Award from the University of Pittsburgh. Murray is currently Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she directs the Creative Writing Program.
Seminar Convenor: Dr Clare Morgan