Lion Rock Visiting Writers Series: Jesse Lee Kercheval

The Lion Rock Visiting Writers Series at Central Washington University welcomes award-winning writer Jesse Lee Kercheval, Tuesday, April 30, 2013, 7:30 p.m. in the Student Union and Recreation Center (SURC) Ballroom. Admission is free and open to the public. Kercheval is the author of twelve books of fiction, poetry, and memoir. Her work has earned many awards including the Prairie Schooner Fiction Book Prize, Associated Writing Programs Award in Short Fiction, and the Alex Award from the American Library Association. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers Workshop. Kercheval's work has also earned her fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Research and Study Center at Harvard, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Wisconsin Arts Board, the Corporation of Yaddo, and the James A. Michener and Copernicus Society. For more information contact Katharine Whitcomb at 509-963-1530 or whitcomk@cwu.edu.