Fiction writer
Cathy Day

Poet
Catie Rosemurgy

Thursday, March 2, 2006

Talk on craft
3:00 P.M.—CSU Ostrander Auditorium
Reading
7:30 P.M.—CSU Ostrander Auditorium

CATHY DAY’S short story cycle, The Circus in Winter, was published by Harcourt in 2004. She was born in Peru, Indiana, which was once winter quarters for several traveling circuses. Her great-great uncle, Henry Hoffman, was an elephant trainer, and another uncle, Bernie Wallace, was known as the fastest ticket-taker in the country. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in New Stories from the South, Story, Antioch Review, Southern Review, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. The Circus in Winter was a finalist for both the Story Prize and the GLCA New Writers’ Award; the book was also one of Amazon.com’s “Best Books of 2004,” a Barnes & Noble “Discover” pick, and an “Original Voices” selection at Borders. The recipient of a Bush Artist Fellowship and a New Jersey Arts Council Grant, Day earned her MFA at The University of Alabama and teaches in the graduate writing program at the University of Pittsburgh.

CATIE ROSEMURGY’S poetry collection, My Favorite Apocalypse, was recognized by The Rona Jaffe Foundation with an award for an emerging female writer. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, River Styx, Poetry Northwest, The Cream City Review, The Best American Poetry 1997, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at The College of New Jersey.

This year's Good Thunder Reading Series is funded by the Minnesota State University Department of English, the MSU College of Arts and Humanities, the MSU Office of Institutional Diversity, MSU Library Services, the Eddice B. Barber Visiting Writer Endowment, the Robert C. Wright Endowment, and individual donors. This activity is made possible in part by a grant provided by the Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council from funds appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature. This activity is also made possible in part by a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.