Fiction Writer Melanie Rae Thon to Give Reading at Penn State Behrend
Melanie Rae Thon, once named a Best Young American Novelist by Granta magazine, will give a public reading from her works on Thursday, March 6, as part of the Creative Writer’s Speaker Series at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
Thon will read at 6:00 p.m. in the Larry and Kathryn Smith Chapel; a reception for her will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the chapel’s ground-floor meeting room. Both events are free and open to the public.
Thon is the author of the novels Sweet Hearts, Iona Moon and Meteors in August, and the short-story collections First, Body and Girls in the Grass. Her most recent fiction appears in the O. Henry Prize and Pushcart Prize XXX and XXXII story collections, and in the literary journals Agni, Five Points, Conjunctions, Crazyhorse, StoryQuarterly, and Antioch Review. Thon’s works have been translated into French, Italian, German, Spanish, Croatian, Finnish, Japanese, and Farsi.
Now a professor of English at University of Utah, Thon previously taught literature and writing at Emerson College, Boston University, University of Massachusetts, Syracuse University and Ohio State.
Penn State Behrend’s annual Creative Writer’s Speaker Series is produced by the college’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences with support from the Clarence A. and Eugenie Baumann Smith Fund. For more information about Thon’s reading, phone 814-898-6108.