Ethan Rutherford will be reading and giving a craft talk as a part of the State University of New York at Fredonia’s Visiting Writers Series’ fiction reading on Thursday, April 16.
A craft talk will begin at 4 p.m. and the reading will follow at 7 p.m. in McEwen Hall Room 202. The event is free and open to the campus and community.
Mr. Rutherford was born in Seattle, Wash., and now lives in the Midwest. His work has received special mention in the 2009, 2010 and 2013 editions of the Pushcart Prize, and he received awards from the McKnight Foundation and the Minnesota State Arts Board. His first book, “The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories,” was named a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick, a “Best Book of the Summer” by Publishers Weekly, and long-listed for the Frank O’Connor Award. It was also a finalist for the John Leonard Prize (NBCC), the Los Angeles Times’ Art Seidenbaum Award, received honorable mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award and was the winner of a Minnesota Book Award.
He received his M.F.A. from the University of Minnesota, and has taught creative writing at Macalester College, the University of Minnesota, and the Loft Literary Center. Rutherford is the guitarist for the band Pennyroyal, and is currently at work on a novel set in the Alaskan wilderness.
The reading is the final event in the 14 year run of the Visiting Writer Series.
