Robert Morgan Will Open River City Writers Series Oct. 11-12
For release: September 30, 2004
For press information, contact Gabrielle Maxey

The University of Memphis will open its fall River City Writers Series with a two-day visit by poet and author Robert Morgan. All events associated with his visit are free and open to the public.

On Monday, Oct. 11, at 11:30 a.m., Morgan will conduct an interview with students Room 456, Patterson Hall. At 8 p.m. he will read from his works in Room 123, Fogelman Executive Center. A book-signing and refreshments will follow that event.

On Tuesday, Oct. 12, at 1 p.m., Morgan will teach a fiction workshop in Room 403, Patterson Hall.

A native of North Carolina, Morgan has written short stories, poems, essays, and novels. He is the author of 24 books, including Gap Creek, which won the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and was a selection of Oprah's Book Club. He also is the author of The Truest Pleasure, The Mountains Won't Remember Us, This Rock, Brave Enemies, and The Balm of the Gilead Tree. Morgan has received three National Education Association grants, a Guggenheim fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship.

Morgan is the Kappa Alpha Professor of English at Cornell University. He has served as a visiting professor or writer at Appalachian State University, Davidson College, Furman University, and Duke University. He will hold the Whichard Chair as visiting writer at East Carolina University next spring.

The River City Writers Series is sponsored by the Student Activities Council, the English Department, the Creative Writing Club, Sigma Tau Delta, the Hohenberg Foundation, Deborah Talbot, Academic Enrichment Funds, Public Service Funds, and Friends of the University Libraries.

More information is available online at: www.memphis.edu/rivercitywriters.

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