The Contraband
Fiction writer Angela Flournoy will give a reading from her works at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, in Stokes Auditorium of Hardtner Hall at McNeese State University. This free event is sponsored by McNeese’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program.
Flournoy is the author of “The Turner House,” which is a finalist for the National Book Award and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, a Summer 2015 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and a New York Times Sunday Book Review Editors' Choice.
Set in Detroit, “The Turner House” brings the reader a colorful, complicated family full of love and pride, sacrifice and unlikely inheritances.
“It's a striking examination of the price we pay for our dreams and futures, and the ways in which our families bring us home,” said Flournoy.
She is a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Honoree for 2015. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, and she has written for the New York Times, The New Republic and the Los Angeles Times.
A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Flournoy received her undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California. She has taught at the University of Iowa and The Writer's Foundry at St. Joseph's College in Brooklyn, N.Y. She is joining the faculty at Southern New Hampshire University's low-residency MFA program in spring 2016.
Fiction writer Angela Flournoy will give a reading from her works at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, in Stokes Auditorium of Hardtner Hall at McNeese State University. This free event is sponsored by McNeese’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program.
Flournoy is the author of “The Turner House,” which is a finalist for the National Book Award and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, a Summer 2015 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and a New York Times Sunday Book Review Editors' Choice.
Set in Detroit, “The Turner House” brings the reader a colorful, complicated family full of love and pride, sacrifice and unlikely inheritances.
“It's a striking examination of the price we pay for our dreams and futures, and the ways in which our families bring us home,” said Flournoy.
She is a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Honoree for 2015. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, and she has written for the New York Times, The New Republic and the Los Angeles Times.
A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Flournoy received her undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California. She has taught at the University of Iowa and The Writer's Foundry at St. Joseph's College in Brooklyn, N.Y. She is joining the faculty at Southern New Hampshire University's low-residency MFA program in spring 2016.
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