| Description | from The Convergence Zone is a series of author readings, and artist talks and performances, sponsored by the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics at the University of Washington Bothell. It brings together sometimes peaceable, sometimes combustible, fronts of discovery and experiment. This series brings to the (virtual) Seattle metropolitan area exciting writers and artists who "cross" and "trans" genres and media. It discusses and performs written arts in an expanded field. Registering for this event will provide access to the Tuesday evening events in this series. For the Thursday evening events, please refer to their event listings for the registration link. October 20, 2020: Brian Evenson Brian Evenson is the author of a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection A Collapse of Horses (Coffee House Press 2016) and the novella The Warren (Tor.com 2016). His books Windeye (Coffee House Press 2012) and Immobility (Tor 2012), were finalists for a Shirley Jackson Award. Other books include Last Days,The Open Curtain,The Wavering Knife, Dark Property, and Altmann's Tongue. He has translated work by numerous authors and hiis work has been translated into Czech, French, Italian, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Persian, Russia, Spanish, Slovenian, and Turkish. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the Critical Studies Program at CalArts. |
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