MSU FACULTY READING 2

Poet and nonfiction writer
Candace Black

Nonfiction writer
Suzanne L. Bunkers

Fiction writer
Terry Davis

Nonfiction writer and poet
Richard Terrill

Thursday, January 26, 2006

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

CANDACE BLACK’S first book of poetry, The Volunteer, won the 2000 Minnesota Voices Poetry Award and was published by New Rivers Press in 2003. Her poems have appeared recently in Harpur Palate and The Alembic. Her nonfiction prose has been published in Iowa Woman and poemmemoirstory, and is forthcoming in War, Literature and the Arts.

SUZANNE L. BUNKERS is the author of In Search of Susanna: An Auto/biography and the co-author of Good Earth, Black Soil. She is the editor of Diaries of Girls and Women: A Midwestern American Sampler, A Pioneer Farm Girl’s Diary, “All Will Yet Be Well”: the Diary of Sarah Gillespie Huftalen, 1873-1952, and The Diary of Caroline Seabury, 1854-1863. She co-edited the collection, Inscribing the Daily: Critical Essays on Women’s Diaries. She also publishes numerous scholarly and popular nonfiction articles on life writing, women’s diaries, WWII survivors’ narratives, and related subjects.

Born in 1947, TERRY DAVIS grew up in Spokane, Washington, where he wrestled for Shadle Park High School. He later attended Eastern Washington University, the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop, and Stanford University, where he received a Wallace Stegner Literary Fellowship. He has taught and coached wrestling at the high school level, as well as taught writing at East Carolina University and here at Minnesota State University, Mankato. His first book, Vision Quest, was made into a popular film starring Matthew Modine. A new edition of the novel has just been released to go along with recent re-releases of his second and third novels, Mysterious Ways and If Rock and Roll Were a Machine.

RICHARD TERRILL is the author of Coming Late to Rachmaninoff, winner of the Minnesota Book Award for poetry; Saturday Night in Baoding: A China Memoir, winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award for nonfiction; and Fakebook: Improvisations on a Journey Back to Jazz. His awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Wisconsin Arts Board, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and Jerome Foundation, along with three Fulbright fellowships. He teaches at MSU.

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.