Speaker's Series with Pulitzer Prize winner Jayne Anne Phillips, featuring Christa Parravani

Join us for an evening with Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Jayne Anne Phillips, as she discusses her new memoir SMALL TOWN GIRLS with author Christa Parravani. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED!

Jayne Anne Philips is the author of six novels, including Night Watch, Quiet Dell, Lark And Termite, MotherKind, Shelter, and Machine Dreams, and two widely anthologized story collections, Fast Lanes, and Black Tickets. Night Watch was awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Longlisted for the National Book Award; Quiet Dell was a Wall Street Journal and Kirkus Review Best Fiction selection. Lark And Termite, winner of the Heartland Prize, was a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Prix de Medici Etranger. Machine Dreams, chosen as one of (12) New York Times’ Best Books of the year, was a finalist for National Book Critic’s Circle Award. Black Tickets, awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy, is often cited as a book of stories that influenced a generation of writers. The recipient of Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, Howard, Bunting, and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, Phillips is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters.  See information, essays and text source photographs at her website, www.jayneannephillips.com 

Christa Parravani is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at West Virginia University, where she heads the MFA division in Nonfiction. Parravani is the author of Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood ( Henry Holt, USA, and Bonnier Books (U.K.). Loved and Wanted was internationally acclaimed for its daring condemnation of the repercussions of curtailed access to reproductive health care. Parravani is also the author of the Indie bestselling Her: A Memoir. Her shares Parravani's journey through grief after the loss of her identical twin sister Cara. Her was named the Amazon Debut Spotlight Pick, an Amazon best book of the month, an NPR critics pick. Vanity Fair calls Her "astonishing."
Her has been optioned for film by Blue Print Pictures, with Halfdan Ullman Tondel attached to direct and Mikey Madison attached to star. Parravani is the recipient of grants from MacDowell, Yaddo, and The Brown Fellows Foundation. She lives in Pittsburgh with her husband and young children and is at work on a novel.