7:00 pm, Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Rieth Recital Hall, Music Center

Award-winning author Susan Neville, "Falling Toward Grace"

Susan Neville, award-winning writer of fiction and creative non-fiction, will read from her creative nonfiction: "Indiana Winter"; "Fabrication: Essays on Making Things" and "Making Meaning; Twilight in Arcadia"; and "Iconography: A Writer's Meditation." Her prize-winning collections of short fiction include In the House of Blue Lights, winner of the Richard Sullivan prize and listed as a 'Notable Book' by the Chicago Tribune, and Invention of Flight, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her stories have appeared in the Pushcart Prize anthology and in anthologies including the new Extreme Fiction (Longman) and The Story Behind the Story (Norton).

Neville teaches writing at Butler University and in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. She is currently at work on a book entitled Falling Toward Grace: Images of Religion and Culture.

A reception and book signing will follow in the Music Center lobby.

Contact: Beth Birky, phone (574) 535-7465, email bethmb@goshen.edu