Join us at Orr Street Studios at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 25, for readings of prose by Lania
Knight and poetry by Elaine
Fowler Palencia.
LANIA KNIGHT
Lania Knight's first book, a novella
titled Three Cubic Feet, was published by Main Street Rag on August 7,
2012. She has a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of
Missouri, and she currently teaches creative writing at Eastern Illinois
University. Her stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in New
Stories from the Midwest, PANK, Jabberwock Review, and Midwestern Gothic. You can read more about her at www.laniaknight.com.
ELAINE FOWLER PALENCIA
Elaine Fowler Palencia is the author
of six books of fiction and two poetry chapbooks.Her short story collections, Small
Caucasian Woman and Brier Country, were published by the
University of Missouri Press. Her poetry, fiction, and essays have been widely
anthologized and have received several awards and four Pushcart Prize
nominations. Her work has appeared in such journals as the American Book
Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, South Carolina Review, Big
Muddy, Appalachian Heritage, and Library Journal.
Orr
Street Studios is located at 106 Orr St. in downtown Columbia,
Mo. Join us every Tuesday evening during the academic year for
literary readings and visual-arts presentations.
