News Releases and
E-Happenings
View All News Releases
CONNECT
RECENT BLOG POSTS
OUR SPONSORS
Events Calendar |
|
Valerie Nieman to read from Blood Clay
Date: February 17, 2012
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Event Description
Valerie Nieman will visit City Lights Bookstore Friday, February 17th at 7 p.m. to read from and discuss her third novel, Blood Clay. Ron Rash says of the book, “Blood Clay is a profoundly moving and beautifully written novel about a community torn apart by tragedy. Valerie Nieman is a writer of remarkable talent, and she has given us a book that, once read, will be hard for any reader to forget.” She is also the author of a collection of short stories, Fidelities, from West Virginia University Press, and a poetry collection, Wake Wake Wake. She has received an NEA creative writing fellowship, two Elizabeth Simpson Smith prizes in fiction, and the Greg Grummer Prize in poetry. A native of Western New York State, she graduated from West Virginia University and the M.F.A. program at Queens University of Charlotte. She teaches writing at N.C. A&T State University and is the poetry editor for Prime Number Magazine
