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Visiting Writers Series: Author Ron Austin

  6 p.m. Thursday, November 17 William T Young Library, UKAA Auditorium
 
Ron A. Austin's short stories have been placed in Boulevard, Pleiades, Story Quarterly, Ninth Letter, Black Warrior Review, and other journals. Avery Colt Is a Snake, a Thief, a Liar, his first collection of linked stories, has received several honors including: The 2017 Nilsen Prize, a 2019 Foreward INDIES GOLD Award, a 2020 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award, a 2020 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize nomination, and a 2020 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award nomination. Austin's work has been supported by grants from the Regional Arts Commission, including a 2016 Artist Fellowship. He, his wife Jennie, and son Elijah live in St. Louis.
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William T Young Library, UKAA Auditorium

Visiting Writers Series: Essayist Amy Leach

  6 p.m. Wednesday, October 20

  Location: William T Young Library, UKAA Auditorium

 

Amy Leach is the author of Things That Are and The Everybody Ensemble. She earned her MFA from the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa, and her work has appeared in The Best American Essays, The Best American Science and Nature Writing, and numerous other publications, including Granta, A Public Space, Orion, Tin House, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She is a recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award, and a Pushcart Prize. Leach lives in Bozeman and teaches creative writing at Montana State University.

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UKAA Auditorium at WTY

A&S Students Selected as Sustainability Summer Research Fellows

By Jesi Jones-Bowman

LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 25, 2021) — Eight University of Kentucky students have been selected for the Sustainability Summer Research Fellowship program, a high-impact learning experience that contributes to the students’ academic growth as well as sustainability-focused research initiatives at UK and within the community at large.

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