Authors Live: Melanie Rae Thon

Salt Lake City Main Library
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
(801) 524-8200

When: Saturday, October 2, 7 p.m.

Author Melanie Rae Thon is a professor in the Creative Writing and Environmental Humanities programs at the University of Utah. Her most recent books are the novel The Voice of the River and In This Light: New and Selected Stories, both to be published in 2011. She is also the author of the novels Sweet Hearts, Meteors in August, and Iona Moon, as well as the story collections First, Body and Girls in the Grass. Thon's work has been included in Best American Short Stories (1995, 1996), three Pushcart Prize Anthologies (2003, 2006, 2008), and O. Henry Prize Stories (2006). She is a recipient of the 1997 Whiting Writer's Award, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1992 and 2008), a 2005 Writer's Residency from the Lannan Foundation, and a fellowship from the Tanner Humanities Center (2009).