Three Minnesota State Mankato alumni writers will be featured in the first Good Thunder Reading Series residency of the spring term on Thursday, Jan. 29.
Fiction and nonfiction writers Benjamin Drevlow and Nicole Helget, along with poet Jude Nutter, will meet with individual writers Thursday morning, and will be interviewed on KMSU-FM. The three will lead a discussion on the craft of writing at 3 p.m. in Ostrander Auditorium. They will read from their published work at 7:30 p.m. in Centennial Student Union Room 253. All events are free and open to the public.
Benjamin Drevlow grew up in Northern Wisconsin and teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. His collection of short stories, “Bend with the Knees and Other Love Advice from My Father,” won the 2006 Many Voices Project from New Rivers Press.
Nicole Helget writes fiction and nonfiction. She received a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers honor for her memoir “The Summer of Ordinary Ways.” “The Turtle Catcher,” soon to be released, is her first novel. She lives in North Mankato with her family.
Jude Nutter was born in North Yorkshire, England. Her first book-length collection, “Pictures of the Afterlife,” was published in 2002. “The Curator of Silence,” her second collection, won the Ernest Sandeen Prize from the University of Notre Dame and was awarded the 2007 Minnesota Book Award in Poetry. A third collection is forthcoming.
The KMSU interview with writers, part of the “Authors in Transit” series, will air on Thursday, Jan. 29, at 1 p.m., and on Friday, Jan. 30, at 11 a.m.
This year’s Good Thunder Reading Series is funded by the Minnesota State Mankato Department of English, the College of Arts and Humanities, the Office of Institutional Diversity, the Nadine B. Andreas Endowment, the Eddice B. Barber Visiting Writer Endowment, the Robert C. Wright Endowment, and individual donors. It is made possible in part by a grant from the Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council from funds appropriated by the Minnesota Legislature and the McKnight Foundation. It also is made possible by a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, through a legislative appropriation and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Library Services and the Barnes & Noble Bookstore offer additional assistance.
Those who want more information about the series may call Richard Robbins at the Department of English, (507) 389-1354.
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