Strange As This Weather Has Been: a Fiction Reading by Ann Pancake

Part of Eco-Voices: A Reading Series on the Environmental Imagination

What	Creative Writing
When	Monday, February 22, 2010 07:00 PM Monday, February 22, 2010 08:30 PM Mon, Feb 22, 2010 from 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm
Where	Sun Room, Memorial Union
Contact Name	Debra Marquart
Contact Email	marquart@iastate.edu
Contact Phone	515-294-2180
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Ann Pancake is a native of West Virginia. Her first novel, Strange As This Weather Has Been, features a southern West Virginia family devastated by mountaintop removal mining. Based on interviews and real events, the novel was one of Kirkus Review's Top Ten Fiction Books of 2007, won the 2007 Weatherford Prize, and was a finalist for the 2008 Orion Book Award.

Pancake’s collection of short stories, Given Ground, received the 2000 Bakeless award. She has also received a Whiting Award, an NEA grant, and a Pushcart Prize. Her fiction and essays have appeared in journals and anthologies like Orion, The Georgia Review, Poets and Writers, and New Stories from the South. She earned her BA in English at West Virginia University and a PHD in English Literature from the University of Washington. Currently, she teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University.