02/13/2023
By Maureen Stanton
The Writers on Campus series presents a public reading and Q&A by Andre Dubus III and Sandra Lim, who are award-winning, nationally recognized writers and faculty members in the English Department, on Wednesday, March 1 at 5:30 p.m. in O'Leary Library auditorium 222. The event is free and all are welcome.
Andre Dubus III
Andre Dubus III’s most recent novel, "Gone So Long" (W.W. Norton, 2018), received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly and was on many “Best Books” lists, including The Boston Globe’s “Twenty Best Books of 2018.” His new novel, "Such Kindness," is forthcoming in June 2023, and his other books include: "Dirty Love," a “Notable Book” pick by The Washington Post and The New York Times, and a Kirkus “Starred Best Book of 2013; the memoir "Townie," a New York Times "Editors Choice” selection; "The Garden of Last Days;" "House of Sand and Fog," a New York Times bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award; "Bluesman;" and "The Cage Keeper and Other Stories." He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, The National Magazine Award for Fiction, Pushcart Prizes, and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. He is a Professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Sandra Lim
Sandra Lim is the author of "The Curious Thing" (W.W. Norton, 2021), as well as "The Wilderness," winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and "Loveliest Grotesque," winner of the Kore Press First Book Award. Her writing has appeared in numerous literary journals, including The New York Review of Books, Poetry, The New Republic, The Baffler, and The New York Times Magazine, among others. Her honors include a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2020 Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2015 Levis Reading Prize for The Wilderness, Pushcart Prizes, as well as residency fellowships from MacDowell, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Getty Foundation. She is a Professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.