Marilyn Abildskov is Final Creative Writer’s Series Speaker
Literary nonfiction writer Marilyn Abildskov will close the 2006-07 Creative Writer’s Speaker Series at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, with a reading on Thursday, April 19.
Abildskov will read from her works beginning at 6:00 p.m. in the Smith Chapel worship space. A 4:30 p.m. reception for her in the Smith Chapel living room will precede the reading; both are free and open to the public.
Abildskov earned her MFA from the University of Iowa. Her short stories, literary essays, and poems have appeared in such magazines as Black Warrior Review, Puerto del Sol, Quarterly West, Bellingham Review, and Southern Review. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award and two Yaddo residencies.
Kirkus Reviews called her memoir The Men in My Country, which is set in Japan, a travel story “that reveals a heart as smitten with the place as the people.” Abildskov lives in Berkeley and teaches in the MFA program at Saint Mary’s College of California.
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 the series, phone 814-898-6108.