Author Michael Martone will be in Flagstaff May 16, 17, and 18 to teach a fiction/nonfiction workshop from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. each day and give a reading on Thursday, May 16 at 7 p.m. in the Liberal Arts bldg., Rm. 120.
“Martone is a real-life kind of writer. He writes about trains, photo booths, field guides, water bottles. He’s also one of the funniest people and writers I know,” said Nicole Walker, assistant professor and director of the MFA program in Creative Writing. “His work overall suggests that by paying closer attention, everything has a story to tell.”
Michael A. Martone is a professor at the creative writing program at the University of Alabama, where he has been teaching since 1996. He is the author of more than a dozen books. His 2005 work, “Michael Martone,” is an investigation of form and autobiography. It was originally written as a series of contributor’s notes for various publications. His literary forte is “false biographies.”
Martone attended Butler University and graduated from Indiana University. He holds a MA from the Writing Seminars of Johns Hopkins University. He has been a faculty member of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and has taught at Iowa State University, Harvard University and Syracuse University. He lives in Tuscaloosa with his wife, the poet Theresa Pappas. The couple has two sons.
The cost of the workshop is $135 for the public and $115 for students. Email nicole.walker@nau.edu or send a check written out to NAU Foundation to Nicole Walker, Box 6032, English Department, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011. The reading is free and open to the public.
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