Guest reader Jess Row joins Creative Writing faculty readers to raise money for Second Harvest Heartland, the Upper Midwest’s largest hunger relief organization: This is the Seventh Annual Hunger Relief Benefit hosted by novelist and professor Charles Baxter and the Creative Writing Program. Row is the author of the new novel Your Face in Mine (Riverhead), which imagines a white American man choosing plastic surgery to appear black; The New York Times called it "provocative and intriguing." Row has published two story collections. Charles Baxter is the Edelstein-Keller Professor in Creative Writing and the author of several novels, such as Saul and Patsy, and story collections, such as Gryphon: New and Selected Stories.
Free and open to the public; suggested donation of $5. Presented by the Edelstein-Keller Visiting Writer Series and the Creative Writing Program in the Department of English.