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SUMMARY:An Evening with Environmental Novelist Ann Pancake
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DESCRIPTION:Ann Pancake’s novel\, Strange As This Weather Has Been (
 Counterpoint 2007)\, features a southern West Virginia family devastat
 ed 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 Or
 ion Book Award and the 2008 Washington State Book Award. Her collectio
 n of short stories\, Given Ground (University Press of New England\, 2
 001)\, won the 2000 Bakeless award\, and she has also received a Whiti
 ng Award\, an NEA grant and a Pushcart Prize. Her fiction and essays h
 ave appeared in journals and anthologies like Orion\, The Georgia Revi
 ew\, Poets and Writers\, and New Stories from the South. Currently\, s
 he teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran Univer
 sity in Tacoma\, Wash. Reception and book signing will follow event.
LOCATION:Shirley Recital Hall\,  Elberson Fine Arts Center
CATEGORIES:Cultural Events
CONTACT:Gail M. Adams\, 336/917-5493\, culturalevents@salem.edu
URL:http://www.salem.edu
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