2009.11.03
Author Reading
Wednesday, November 4, 7 PM, Volume II Bookstore, Blacksburg, (540) 231-9674
Melanie Rae Thon's most recent book is the novel Sweet Hearts. She is also the author of Meteors in August and Iona Moon, and the story collections First, Body and Girls in the Grass. Her work has been included in Best American Short Stories (1995, 1996), three Pushcart Prize Anthologies (2003, 2006, 2008), and O. Henry Prize Stories (2006). She is also a recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award (1997), two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1992 and 2008), a Writer's Residency from the Lannan Foundation (2005), and a fellowship from the Tanner Humanities Center (2009). In 1996, Granta included her in the Best of the Young American Novelists issue.
Originally from Montana, she now lives in Salt Lake City, where she teaches at the University of Utah.
