Hannah Tinti

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Kevin Prufer

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Abigail Thomas

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DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Fiction writer Hannah Tinti will start the Visiting Writers Series with a reading and book signing Oct. 4 (Thursday) at the University of North Texas. The series, which is sponsored by the Creative Writing Program in the Department of English, will also include nationally renowned writers Kevin Prufer and Abigail Thomas.

The readings will take place at UNT's University Union, located one block west of Welch and West Prairie streets (1155 Union Circle). All of the readings are free and open to the public.

Visiting Writers:

Hannah Tinti

8 p.m., Oct. 4 (Thursday)
Golden Eagle Suite on the third level of UNT's University Union, located one block west of Welch and West Prairie streets (1155 Union Circle)

Hannah Tinti’s short story collection, Animal Crackers, has sold in 16 countries and was a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway award. Her best-selling novel, The Good Thief, is a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, recipient of the American Library Association’s Alex Award, winner of the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and winner of the Quality Paperback Book Club’s New Voices Award. Tinti is also co-founder and editor-in-chief of One Story magazine and received the 2009 PEN/Nora Magid award for excellence in editing. Recently, she joined the Public Radio program, Selected Shorts, as their literary commentator. For more information, visit www.hannahtinti.com.

Kevin Prufer

8 p.m. Oct. 23 (Tuesday)
Golden Eagle Suite on the third level of UNT's University Union, located one block west of Welch and West Prairie streets (1155 Union Circle)

Kevin Prufer is the author of five books of poems, the most recent of which are In a Beautiful Country (Four Way Books, 2011), a finalist for the UNT Rilke Prize; and National Anthem (Four Way Books, 2008), named one of the five best poetry books of the year by Publishers Weekly. He’s also editor of numerous volumes, most recently New European Poets (Graywolf Press, 2008; with Wayne Miller), Dunstan Thompson: On the Life & Work of a Lost American Master (Unsung Masters Series, 2010; w/D.A. Powell), and Until Everything is Continuous Again: Poets on the Recent Work of W. S. Merwin (WordFarm Editions, 2012; with Jonathan Weinert). Among his forthcoming books are Churches (Four Way Books, 2014) and Into English: Essays & Multiple Translations (Graywolf Press, 2014; with Martha Collins). He is professor of English in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston.

Abigail Thomas

8 p.m., Nov. 7 (Wednesday)
Silver Eagle Suite A on the second level of UNT's University Union, located one block west of Welch and West Prairie streets (1155 Union Circle)

Abigail Thomas has written three works of fiction, Getting Over Tom; An Actual Life; and Herb’s Pajamas; and three memoirs: Safekeeping; A Three Dog Life; and Thinking About Memoir, a guide to writing memoir which doubles as a kind of memoir itself. A Three Dog Life was chosen by The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times as one of the best books of 2006 and has been translated into nine languages.

Her essays and stories have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, O the Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Tin House, Cosmopolitan magazine, Ladies’ Home Journal, The Missouri Review, Alaska Quarterly and other magazines.