Contact: Kenneth Billings
STARKVILLE, Miss.--Two members of Mississippi State's English department faculty will read next week from their works included in the latest edition of Surreal South, a semi-annual anthology of poetry and short fiction.
University associate professor Becky Hagenston and assistant professor Michael Kardos will be featured Tuesday [Dec. 1] in a free 7:30 p.m. program in the Fowlkes Auditorium located on the Colvard Student Union's third floor.
Previously, Hagenston has had work published in The Southern Review, TriQuarterly and Witness, as well as the 1996 O. Henry Prize Anthology. A collection of her stories, titled "A Gram of Mars" (1999), won Saranbade Books' Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction.
Kardos is publisher of the Jabberwock Review, the MSU literary journal published semi-annually by students and faculty. His work also has appeared in The Southern Review, along with Crazyhorse and The Florida Review, among other publications.
Surreal South '09 is part of Press 53, an independent publisher of literary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. For more information, visit www.press53.com/SurrealSouth.html.
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For more on the MSU event, contact the English department at 662-325-3644.