Monday, September 22nd at 7pm.

Visiting Writers Series Kicks Off

By Darlene Pagan

Peter Rock, author of three novels with a fourth, My Abandonement forthcoming (Harcourt) and a story collection, The Unsettling, will read in Taylor Auditorium on Monday, September 22nd at 7pm.

Peter Rock was born and raised in Salt Lake City. He is the author of the novels The Bewildered, The Ambidextrist, This is the Place, and Carnival Wolves, and a story collection, The Unsettling. Rock attended Deep Springs College, received a BA in English from Yale University, and held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. He has taught fiction at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Deep Springs College, and in the MFA program at San Francisco State University. His stories and freelance writing have both appeared widely. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and other awards, he currently lives in Portland, Oregon. His novel My Abandonment will be published by Harcourt in March, 2009.