Visiting Writer Series: Leni Zumas
Thursday, November 7, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Eliot Hall Chapel
This event is open to the public.
Leni Zumas is the author of the story collection Farewell Navigator (Open City) and the novel The Listeners (Tin House), which was a finalist for the 2013 Oregon Book Award. Her fiction has appeared in Quarterly West, Open City, Salt Hill, New Orleans Review, New York Tyrant, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, and other magazines. She has received fellowships from Yaddo, Hedgebrook, Djerassi, MacDowell, the Millay Colony, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Zumas is an assistant professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Portland State University. She lives in Portland with the artist Luca Dipierro and their baby son.
For more information, contact Karen Bondaruk.
Posted on Oct 31, 2013