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Binford Reading Series

February 18, 2010

Fiction writer Debra Spark reads from her latest novel at 7:30 pm, Villa Maria, Marylhurst University.

Spark is the author of two other novels Coconuts for the Saint and The Ghost of Bridgetown. Her popular lectures on writing are collected in Curious Attractions: Essays on Fiction Writing. Spark has also written for Esquire, Ploughshares, The New York Times, among other places.

She has been the recipient of several awards including a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Bunting Institute fellowship from Radcliffe College, and the John Zacharis/Ploughshares award for best first book.

She is a professor at Colby College and teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She lives with her husband and son in North Yarmouth, Maine.

For more information, contact the English Literature and Writing Department at 503.699.6274.

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Debra Spark