Columbia College presents Author Jayne Anne Phillips: Reading and Conversation April 22, 2010

Columbia College Chicago presents a free and open to the public reading and conversation with author Jayne Anne Phillips. Jayne Anne Phillips is the nationally renowned author of numerous story collections, essays, and novels including Machine Dreams, Black Tickets, and, most recently, Lark and Termite, a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award and for the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction. Ms. Phillips was born and raised in West Virginia. She has earned numerous awards, including the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and a Bunting Fellowship from the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. She currently serves as a professor of English and director of the MFA program at Rutgers-Newark.

Books will be available for sale, and a signing will follow the reading and conversation.

Contact the Fiction Writing Department, (312) 369-7611 for more information

Moderated by Patricia Ann McNair, Faculty Member, Fiction Writing Department