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March 11, 2010

Brian Evenson Visits IAIA as a Lannan Foundation Writer in Residence

Contact:
Jon Davis, 505.424.2365
jdavis@iaia.edu

The Institute of American Indian Arts is hosting author Brian Evenson through the Lannan Foundation’s Writer in Residence program and welcomes the public to a free reading by Evenson on March 25, 2010. The reading will take place at 7:00 p.m. on the IAIA campus in the Library and Technology Center auditorium (83 Avan Nu Po Road in Santa Fe).

Evenson is the author of nine books of fiction, most recently Last Days, a novel, and Fugue State, a collection of stories. The Open Curtain (published by Coffee House) was a finalist for an Edgar Award and an IHG award and was among Time Out New York's top books of 2006. Other books by Evenson include The Wavering Knife (which won the IHG Award for best story collection) and the Brotherhood of Mutilation. He lives and works in Providence, RI where he directs Brown University's literary arts program. He is the recipient of an O. Henry Prize as well as an NEA fellowship.

For more information about this event, please call 505.424.2365 or email jdavis@iaia.edu. For more information about IAIA, please visit www.iaia.edu.

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IAIA’s mission is to empower creativity and leadership in Native arts and cultures through higher education, lifelong learning and outreach.

Offering degrees in studio arts, creative writing, new media arts, Indigenous liberal studies, and museum studies, IAIA is the only college in New Mexico with National Association of Schools of Art and Design accreditation. IAIA is also accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools


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