NEWS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS)
Date: February 19, 2009
Terry W. Brown, 270-707-3732; terry.brown@kctcs.edu
Barry Kitterman Featured in Hoptown Reading Series
HOPKINSVILLE, KY (February 19, 2009) - The Hoptown Reading Series will present novelist Barry Kitterman Thursday, Feb. 26, at 7:00 p.m. Kitterman will give readings from his various works and host discussion at Hopkinsville Community College Library.
Kitterman grew up in California's San Joaquin Valley, and studied at the University of California at Berkeley. After serving two years in the Peace Corps, he completed the MFA program at the University of Montana in 1981.
He has taught writing and literature at Indiana University East, Miami University of Ohio and at two universities in the People's Republic of China. In 1989-90, he was the Hudson Walker Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA.
Since 1994, Kitterman has taught at Austin Peay State University, where he currently coordinates the creative writing program and the visiting writers series.
He has published short fiction and nonfiction in
The Carolina Quarterly,
The Chariton Review,
Turnstile, Flyway, and elsewhere. He is the fiction editor for
Zone 3 Magazine and is an associate editor of
The Green Hills Literary Lantern. In 2001, he received an individual artist's grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission. His novel,
The Baker's Boy, was published in May 2008.
A reception will follow during which Mr. Kitterman's books will be available for sale and signing.
The Hoptown Reading Series brings nationally renowned authors to the campus of Hopkinsville Community College as a public community service as well as to provide enhanced opportunities for HCC creative writing and other students to have the opportunity to meet professional writing practitioners.
For more information about the Hoptown Reading Series, contact Brett Ralph, at (270)707-3890. He may also be reached via email at
Brett.Ralph@kctcs.edu.
The event is free and open to the public.
For most Kentuckians, higher education begins at KCTCS. Our statewide system of 16 colleges and 65 campuses provides citizens throughout the Commonwealth with a quality education that is both accessible and affordable.