2013-2014 Reading Series
Thursday, October 17, 2013 at 8:00 pm
Knight Library Browsing Room

Fiction writer Natalie Serber is the author of the short story collection Shout Her Lovely Name (2012). According to Booklist, “Serber’s stellar first collection packs an emotional wallop right from the start … sharp, somber, and sparkling commentary … As provocative as it is poignant, Serber’s searingly honest depiction of the complex, contentious, and confusing bonds at the heart of all families heralds an exceptional new talent.”

Serber received her MFA from Warren Wilson College and has been awarded the John Steinbeck Award, Tobias Wolff Award, H.E. Francis Award, and the Ragdale Artists Residency Fellowship. Her
work has appeared in Hunger Mountain, Inkwell Magazine, The Bellingham Review, Fourth Genre, Gulf Coast, The Rumpus, The Oregonian, and Clackamas Literary Review. She is currently working on a novel under contract with Houghton Miffl in Harcourt, du later this year (2013)