Author Tayari Jones will present a reading on December 5 at 7 p.m. in Room LL430 of the SDSU Library, 5500 Campanile Drive, as part of the Fall 2011 Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series. The event is free and open to all.
Tayari is the author of three novels: Leaving Atlanta, which received the Hurston/Wright Award for Debut Fiction; The Untelling; and Silver Sparrow. She has received fellowships from organizations such as the Illinois Arts Council, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and The MacDowell Colony. Tayari is an associate professor in the MFA program at Rutgers-Newark University and will spend the 2011-12 academic year at Harvard University as a Radcliffe Institute Fellow, researching her fourth novel.
For more information, contact Meagan Marshall at marshall_Meagan@yahoo.com. Additional information can be found on Facebook by “liking” The Living Writers Series.
