Acclaimed writer Kim Stafford will read from his work at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 13, in Stanley Russ Hall Room 103. A discussion and book signing will follow the reading. The event is free and open to the public.Kim Stafford grew up in Oregon, Iowa, Indiana, California, and Alaska, following his parents as they taught and traveled through the West. He has taught at Lewis & Clark College since 1979, where he directs the Northwest Writing Institute, and teaches writing. He also serves as the Literary Executor for the William Stafford Archive, helping readers and publishers to increase public access to William Stafford’s writing. He has worked as an oral historian, letterpress printer, editor, photographer, teacher and visiting writer at a host of small towns in the Pacific Northwest, and at colleges in New York, California, Idaho, Washington and Oregon.
His publications include “A Thousand Friends of Rain: New & Selected Poems” (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1999); “Wheel Made of Wind” (a CD of original songs, Little Infinities, 1997); “Having Everything Right: Essays of Place” (rpt. Sasquatch Books, 1996); We Got Here Together (a children’s book, Harcourt Brace, 1994); “Wind on the Waves” (short stories, Graphic Arts, 1992); “Lochsa Road: A Pilgrim in the West” (a travel essay, Confluence Press, 1991); “Entering the Grove” (essays in celebration of trees, Peregrine Smith, 1990); “Places & Stories” (poems, Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1987); “Rendezvous: Stories, Songs, & Opinions of the Idaho Country” (Idaho State University Press, 1982); “A Gypsy’s History of the World” (poems, Copper Canyon Press, 1976).
Stafford has received two creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and his book Having Everything Right won a Western States Book Award in 1986. He received an Oregon Governor’s Arts Award in 1998. He holds a Ph.D. in medieval literature from the University of Oregon, and lives in Portland with his wife and children.
Stafford?s appearance is part of the Central Arkansas Writing Arts Series and is sponsored by UCA?s Department of Writing and Speech.
Stafford?s visit is also part of UCA?s Artists in Residence program coordinated by the College of Fine Arts and Communication. While on campus, he will be meeting with UCA writing students and members of the Arkansas Writing Project in a workshop and discussion setting.
For more information, contact Terry Wright at 501.450.3295 or email terryw@uca.edu.
