MSU FACULTY READING 1

Fiction writer
Diana Joseph

Poet
Richard Robbins

Fiction writer
Roger Sheffer

Thursday, September 8, 2005

Reading
7:30 P.M.—CSU Ostrander Auditorium

DIANA JOSEPH’S story collection is titled Happy or Otherwise. Her fiction has been listed in Best American Short Stories and has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Threepenny Review, Puerto del Sol, and elsewhere. Born and raised in western Pennsylvania, Joseph lived in New York and Colorado before moving to Mankato to teach at Minnesota State University.

RICHARD ROBBINS grew up in Southern California and Montana. He studied with Richard Hugo and Madeline DeFrees at the University of Montana, where he earned his MFA. He has published two books, most recently Famous Persons We Have Known, and has received awards from The Loft, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Society of America. He directs the creative writing program and Good Thunder Reading Series at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

ROGER SHEFFER has taught at Minnesota State University, Mankato since 1980. He has published three short-story collections, the latest of which is Music of the Inner Lakes. He is currently working on plans for a wilderness cabin in the Adirondacks, the subject for a nonfiction writing project.

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.