The University of Arkansas presents a literary reading and booking signing with author Taylor Brorby.
Fayetteville Public Library welcomes author Taylor Brorby for a reading from his works. Taylor Brorby is the author of Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land, Crude: Poems, Coming Alive: Action and Civil Disobedience, and co-editor of Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The Huffington Post, and Literary Hub and been supported by grants and fellowships from the National Book Critics Circle, the MacDowell Colony, and the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture. Taylor's been interviewed about his work on MSNBC and NPR and serves on the editorial boards of Hub City Press and Terrain.org. He is a contributing editor at North American Review and teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Alabama. A book signing will follow the reading.
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 Department of English, the Walton Family Foundation, and the Fayetteville Public Library.