Novelist Padgett Powell & Poet Ellen Bryant Voigt

Date: Thu, February 9th 2012
Additional Time Info: 7:00 p.m.
External Link: Event Website
Location: Georgia State University

Padgett Powell is the author of five novels, including The Interrogative Mood and Edisto, which was nominated for the National Book Award. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Little Star, and The Paris Review, and he has received a Whiting Writers’ Award and the Rome Fellowship in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Ellen Bryant Voigt has published seven volumes of poetry, including Kyrie, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Shadow of Heaven, a finalist for the National Book Award. In 2002 she received the O.B. Hardison, Jr. Prize, for poetry and teaching, from the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Merrill Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, where she was subsequently elected a chancellor. Voigt designed—and teaches at—the first low-residency MFA program for writers, at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina. Their discussion will be held in the General Classroom Building of Georgia State University, in the Troy Moore Library located on the 9th floor.