Reading: Cathie Pelletier, Andre Dubus III, Lan Samantha Chang

Eckerd College Writers’ Conference: Writers in Paradise presents an evening reading with Sterling Watson, Helen Pruitt Wallace and Major Jackson.
Reading will be followed by book sale and author signings. This event is free and open to the public. Visit http://www.writersinparadise.com for more information.

Cathie Pelletier is the author of twelve novels, ten of which are under her own name, beginning with The Funeral Makers, published by MacMillan in 1986. Her newest novel, A Year After Henry, was published in August, 2014, and was a recent finalist for the Maine Fiction Award. Her first middle grade novel, The Summer Experiment, was published in the spring of 2014. Under the pseudonym of K. C. McKinnon she wrote two novels, Dancing at the Harvest Moon and Candles on Bay Street, both published by Doubleday, the latter earning a million-dollar advance. The first McKinnon novel was translated into 19 languages and was a CBS TV film starring Jacqueline Bisset, Valerie Harper, and Eric Mabius. The second was translated into 16 languages and was a Hallmark Hall of Fame film starring Alicia Silverstone. http://www.writersinparadise.com for more bio info.

Andre Dubus III’s books include the New York Times’ bestsellers House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and his memoir, Townie. His most recent book, Dirty Love, was a New York Times “Notable Book” selection, a New York Times “Editors’ Choice,” and a Kirkus “Starred Best Book of 2013.” His new novel, Gone So Long, is forthcoming.
Mr. Dubus has been a finalist for the National Book Award and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, The National Magazine Award for Fiction, two Pushcart Prizes, and is a recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. His books are published in over twenty-five languages, and he teaches full-time at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Fontaine, a modern dancer, and their three children.

Lan Samantha Chang is the author of two novels, All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost and Inheritance, and a story collection, Hunger. Samantha’s short stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, and The Best American Short Stories. She has been a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, a Radcliffe Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, a Hodder Fellow from Princeton University, and a Writing Fellow at the American Library in Paris. She has also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa, where she is May Brodbeck Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences and Director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa.