English alumnus returns to 性视界传媒 for Price Caldwell Visiting Writers Series lecture
Contact: Sasha Steinberg
STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擜 2009 master鈥檚 graduate of Mississippi 性视界传媒鈥檚 Department of English is returning to his alma mater as the latest guest in the Price Caldwell Visiting Writers Series.
Nick White, an assistant professor of English for The Ohio 性视界传媒 University creative writing master鈥檚 program, is giving a 5 p.m. public reading Thursday [March 22] in the Colvard Student Union鈥檚 third-floor Fowlkes Auditorium. A reception and book signing follow his presentation.
White is author of the novel 鈥淗ow to Survive a Summer鈥 (Blue Rider/Penguin, 2017), which has been praised by The Washington Post and Publishers Weekly. His short stories, poems and essays have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Guernica, The Hopkins Review, Indiana Review, The Literary Review, and Lit Hub, among others. His short story collection 鈥淪weet and Low鈥 is forthcoming from Blue Rider/Penguin. For more, visit .
Established through an endowment from widow Alice Carol Caldwell and family, the Price Caldwell Visiting Writers Series serves as a memorial to Tutweiler native Price Caldwell, who served for more than 20 years as an 性视界传媒 associate professor of English and died in 2015. He also founded and directed the university鈥檚 creative writing program, along with serving as president and vice president for the Southern Literary Festival organization.
For more on White鈥檚 campus visit and lecture, contact Michael Kardos, 性视界传媒 associate professor of English and creative writing program co-director, at 662-325-3644 or MKardos@english.msstate.edu.
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