Joseph Skibell, Reading

Mon., Feb.7, 2011, 6:30 p.m. Jones Room, 311 Woodruff Library, free, 404-727-4683, creativewriting@emory.edu, www.creativewriting.emory.edu.

Followed by a booksigning. Fiction writer, playwright, screenwriter. Associate Professor of English/Creative Writing at Emory University. He has published three novels, “Blessing on the Moon” (Rosenthal Foundation Award from American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Turner Prize for First Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters), “The English Disease” (Jesse H. Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters) and “A Curable Romantic.” His play “Our Own Dear Anton's Abandoned Story Cycle,” premiered in 2001. His stories and essays have appeared in numerous periodicals, including Story, Tikkun, The New York Times and Poets & Writers. He is the recipient of a Halls Fellowship, a Michener Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.