The Writer's Studio: 2011 Pushcart Prize Reading w/ Lydia Davis , Sigrid Nunez, Susan Wheeler and Mark Strand December 4, 2011

LYDIA DAVIS’s story collections include Varieties of Disturbance, a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award, Samuel Johnson Is Indignant, a Village Voice favorite; and Almost No Memory, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. Davis is the acclaimed translator of Swann’s Way, by Marcel Proust, and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis was published in 2009 by FSG. She was the recipient of a 2003 MacArthur Fellowship and teaches at SUNY Albany, where she is also a Fellow of the New York State Writers Institute. ////////
Sigrid Nunez has published six novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, and, most recently, Salvation City. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag.Among the many journals to which she has contributed are The New York Times, Harper’s,McSweeney’s, The Believer, Tin House, and O, The Oprah Magazine. Her honors and awards include three Pushcart Prizes, a Whiting Writer’s Award, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, and two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters: the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award and the Rome Prize in Literature. Visit her at www.sigridnunez.com. //////
Susan Wheeler is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Assorted Poems from Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and a novel, Record Palace. Her sixth collection, Meme, will be published by the University of Iowa Press in 2012. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she teaches at Princeton University. //// Mark Strand is the author of eleven books of poems, as well as a collection of short stories and several volumes of translations, anthologies, and monographs. He has received many honors and awards for his poems, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize (for Blizzard of One), and the Bollingen Prize. In 1990 he was chosen Poet Laureate of the United States. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.

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