Debra Monroe

September 22, 2012 

7:30 pm

 Stream Alumni Center

Debra Monroe is the author of four books of fiction, The Source of Trouble (1990), A Wild, Cold State (1995), Newfangled(1998), and Shambles (2004); and one memoir, On the Outskirts of Normal: Forging a Family Against the Grain(2010). Her books have won many awards, including the Flannery O’Connor Award, the John Gardner Fellowship, The Violet Crown Award, the Quarterly West Novella Competition, and more. She was born in North Dakota and raised in Wisconsin. She has since lived in Kansas, Utah, North Carolina, and Texas, where she lives now, and she teaches in the MFA program at Texas State University.

The public is invited.