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Julie Shigekuni
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Novelist Julie Shigekuni will be the final guest in the spring 2017 Writers Speak Wednesdays series of free author talks and readings open to the public at Stony Brook Southampton. Ms. Shigekuni will read from and discuss her work on April 19 at 7 p.m.
The author of four novels, Ms. Shigekuni is a creative writing professor at the University of New Mexico, where she is also the development director of a new Asian American Studies program. Her latest novel, “In Plain View,” released in 2016, is set in the Japanese-American community in Los Angeles in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster.
Ms. Shigekuni, received a BA from CUNY Hunter College and an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, was a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award and the recipient of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature. She has also received a Henfield Award and an American Japanese Literary Award.
Writers Speak Wednesdays programs begin with a brief reception at 6:30 p.m., readings at 7 p.m. and followed by a Q&A and book signing. All programs are held in the radio lounge on the second floor of Chancellors Hall at Stony Brook Southampton located at 39 Tuckahoe Road in Southampton.
For more information, call (631) 632-5030 or visit www.stonybrook.edu/mfa.
gavinmenu on Apr 11, 2017