OLLU’s MA/MFA program in Literature, Creative Writing and Social Justice welcomes author Elizabeth Harris as part of the “Social Justice Reading Series,” Wednesday, at 7 p.m., in Library Community Room.
Winner of the 2014 Gival Press Fiction Award for her short novel, “Mayhem: Three Lives of a Woman,” Harris is a native Texan who grew up in Ft. Worth. She won the John Simmons Prize, awarded by University of Iowa Press, for her first book “The Ant Generator,” a collection of stories praised for their “sense of wonder and comedy” and “acid-etched existentialism.”
Those and uncollected stories have appeared in, “Antioch Review,” “Epoch,” “Chicago Review,” “North American Review,” “Shenandoah,” and other magazines, and have been anthologized in “New Stories from the South,” “Best of Wind,” “The Iowa Award,” and “Literary Austin.”
The reading is free and open to the public.