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Virtual: UA Walton Visiting Writers in Fiction

Patrick Cottrell and Sarah Gerard

The University of Arkansas Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing and Translation is proud to present the 2021-22 Walton Visiting Writers in Fiction Patrick Cottrell and Sarah Gerard.

Acclaimed fiction writers Patrick Cottrell and Sarah Gerard will present a free, virtual reading of their works and answer audience questions. 

Patrick Cottrell is the author of "Sorry to Disrupt the Peace (McSweeney's)". He is a winner of a Whiting Award in fiction and a Barnes and Noble Discover Award. His work has been translated into Korean, Italian, French and is forthcoming in Turkish. His work has appeared in "Ploughshares", "Burrow Press", "Bomb Magazine", "Granta", and other places. Most recently, he guest-edited a special queer fiction issue of "Mcsweeney's Quarterly". He lives in Denver, where he teaches at the University of Denver in the English and Literary Arts Program.  

Sarah Gerard’s essay collection "Sunshine State" was a New York Times Editors Choice, a finalist for the Southern Book Prize, and was long-listed for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Her novel "Binary Star" was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and was a best-book-of-the-year at NPR, Vanity Fair, and BuzzFeed. Her writing has appeared in "The New York Times", "T Magazine", "Granta", "Guernica", "The Baffler", "The Believer", "Vice", "Electric Literature", and several anthologies. She was the 2018–2019 New College of Florida Writer-in-Residence, and winner of a Lambda Literary Jim Duggins Prize. She lives with her partner, the writer Patrick Cottrell. 

This event is made possible by the University of Arkansas MFA Program in Creative Writing and Translation, the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, the English department, the Walton Family Foundation, Fayetteville Public Library and the James E. and Ellen Wadley Roper Professorship in Creative Writing.

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