The Murray State Department of English and Philosophy is pleased to welcome author Amy Wright to campus as part of the Murray State Reading Series. Wright will read from her work on Thursday, October 26 at 7:30 p.m. in the Waterfield Library Gallery on the Murray State campus. The reading is free and open to the public.

Amy Wright grew up on a family farm in southwest Virginia. She earned an B.A. from the University of Virginia, M.A. from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Ph.D. from the University of Denver. She is a Professor of English at Austin Peay State University who strives through her teaching and writing to promote environmental sustainability and healing through meaning-making. She served as the 2022 Wayne G. Basler Chair of Excellence at East Tennessee State University and has been awarded two Peter Taylor Fellowships to the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, an Individual Artist Grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission, and a fellowship to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her contest-winning essays have featured in Georgia Review, Fourth Genre, Kenyon Review, Minding Nature, and elsewhere. Wright co-edited and introduced the Virginia volume of The Southern Poetry Anthology and is Senior Editor of Zone 3 journal and Nonfiction Editor of Zone 3 Press. Author of three poetry books and six chapbooks, her nonfiction debut, Paper Concert (Sarabande Books) won the 2022 Nautilus Gold Award for Lyric Prose.

For more information about the event or the MSU Reading Series, contact Gwendolyn Paradice, Creative Writing Program Coordinator (gparadice@murraystate.edu). For more information about the creative writing program, visit the Creative Writing website, or follow the program on Facebook and Instagram at @murraystatecreativewriting.