Please Join Porter Square Books and PEN/New England for Jayne Anne Phillips at Upstairs on the Square.
Jayne Anne Phillips was born in Buckhannon, West Virginia. She is the author of four novels, Lark and Termite, a 2009 National Book Award Finalist, MotherKind, Shelter and Machine Dreams, and two collections of widely anthologized stories, Fast Lanes and Black Tickets.
She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment
for the Arts Fellowships, and a Bunting Fellowship. She has been
awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and an Academy Award in
Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has
been translated into twelve languages, and has appeared in Granta,
Harper's, DoubleTake, and The Norton Anthology of Contemporary
Fiction. She is currently Professor of English and Director of the MFA
Program at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey.
Please note: this is an off-site event to be held at Upstairs on the Square in Cambridge, MA.
PEN (Poets/Playwrights,
Essayists/Editors, Novelists) New England is an organization of
published authors, aspiring writers, and all who love the written
word. Our mission is to advance the cause of literature in New England
and defend free expression everywhere. PEN New England is a branch of
PEN American Center, and part of International PEN, the oldest
international literary organization and also the oldest human rights
organization in the world.
