Nov. 8, 2006
 
Marshall Writers to Read from Their Work on Nov. 15
 
By HNN Staff
 
Huntington, WV (HNN) – Fiction writers Marie Manilla and Dr. Anthony Viola will read from their work at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2006 in Room 2W16 of the Memorial Student Center on Marshall University’s Huntington campus.
 
Their appearance, sponsored by the Marshall English department and the College of Liberal Arts, is part of the MU Visiting Writer’s Series, now in its 18th year.
 
Dr. Viola is an assistant professor of English at Marshall University. He has been the associate director of the Writing Program and a postdoctoral scholar in creative writing at the University of Kentucky, as well as a postdoctoral fellow at Ohio University, where he had received his Ph.D. in 2003.
 
He has published stories in Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing and Gulf Coast. He is currently at work on a novel set in New York City. Manilla is a Huntington native. She holds an MA in English from Marshall University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. A finalist in the 2003 Nelson Algren Awards, her story “Crystal City” was published in The Chicago Tribune. In 1997, she received the Lawrence Foundation Award for best short story to appear in Prairie Schooner.
 
Other stories, novel excerpts, and plays have appeared in Mississippi Review and the GSU Review. Her screenplay, “Amnesty,” placed second in the 2003 BroadMind Entertainment/Cynosure Screenwriting Awards. This summer she attended the Sewanee Writers’ Conference as a Tennessee Williams Scholar in fiction.
 
For more information, contact MU English professor Art Stringer at (304) 696-2403.