Aimee Bender to read February 23

The Mary E. Rolling Reading Series presents

Aimee Bender

Wednesday, February 23rd

7:30 pm

Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library

Aimee Bender is the author of four books: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt (1998) which was a NY Times Notable Book, An Invisible Sign of My Own (2000) which was an L.A. Times pick of the year, Willful Creatures (2005) which was nominated by The Believer as one of the best books of the year, and The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (2010) which recently won the SCIBA award for best fiction. Her short fiction has been published in Granta, GQ, Harper's, Tin House, McSweeney's, The Paris Review, and many more places, as well as heard on PRI's This American Life and Selected Shorts. She received two Pushcart prizes, and was nominated for the TipTree award in 2005, and the Shirley Jackson short story award in 2010. Her fiction has been translated into sixteen languages. 

The Mary E. Rolling Reading Series is a project of Penn State’s M.F.A. program in English. It receives generous support from the The Mary E. Rolling Lectureship in Creative Writing, the Joseph L. Grucci Poetry Endowment, the Pennsylvania Center for the Book, the University Libraries, the Department of English, and the College of the Liberal Arts