Writers from UNC Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing Program read at Malaprop’s, Nov. 15

Press release:

Authors participating in UNC Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing Program (GSWP) will read from their works in the next installment of the Writers at Home series. The reading begins at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 15, at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café, 55 Haywood St., downtown Asheville, and is free and open to the public.

The reading features six local writers:

• David Schulman is the author of an Asheville-based novel, The Past Is Never Dead (Blair Publishing, 2004). He won the North Carolina Press Club’s Best Personal Columnist Award for 1994 and 1995 and received special recognition by the North Carolina Society of Historians for his nonfiction. He has also won short story contests by Creative Loafing and Rapid River Magazine.

• Pete Solet has published poetry in The Asheville Poetry Review, Ars Medica and Quiddity. His fiction has appeared in The Great Smokies Review, and he is on the editorial staff of OLLI at UNC Asheville’s online journal Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine.

• Suzanne Lunsford’s nonfiction has been published in The Great Smokies Review, and she has also won first prize in a Mysterical-E story competition. Her stint with the U.S. Foreign Service influenced her writing, as did years as chef and owner of a Spanish restaurant in Florida.

• Katie Hart studied fiction writing at Columbia College Chicago and has published short fiction in Bird’s Thumb literary magazine. She is working on a coming of age novel featuring adventures in wilderness therapy in the Asheville area.

• Ann Ceraldi has published creative nonfiction in The Great Smokies Review and is working on a children’s novel.

• Liza Lichtenfeld, a medical student at UNC-Chapel Hill, is working on novel that she describes as “ER meets Saul Bellow.”

For more information about the Writers at Home series and the Great Smokies Writing Program, call the program at 828.250.2353 or visit professionaleducation.unca.edu/writers-home-series.