Join the School of Writing, Literature, and Film for a reading by author Jamel Brinkley. Book signing to follow. Free and open to the public. 

The Visiting Writers Series is sponsored by the MFA Program in Creative Writing at OSU; the OSU School of Writing, Literature, and Film; and the College of Liberal Arts with support from Kathy Brisker and Tim Steele and Grass Roots Books and Music.

Brinkley is author of Witness: Stories, a finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Fiction, and A Lucky Man: Stories, a finalist for numerous awards including the 2018 National Book Award. His writing has appeared in Ploughshares, The Paris Review, American Short Fiction, and Tin House, and was twice anthologized in The Best American Short Stories. Raised in Brooklyn and the Bronx, he teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Accommodation requests related to a disability can be made by contacting Molly McFerran, 541-737-3244 or molly.mcferran@oregonstate.edu.