Friday, November 01, 2002

WILMINGTON, NC – The UNCW Creative Writing Department will present a reading by novelist and Assistant Professor Robert Siegel at 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 15 at King Hall Auditorium. He will be reading from his manuscript of a new novel now in progress. A reception and book signing will follow in the lobby. This event is free and open to the public.

New to the UNCW creative writing faculty this fall semester, Siegel is teaching fiction workshops. During spring semester 2003, he will teach two undergraduate writing workshops and a graduate publishing lab anthology course that should result in an actual book featuring poetry, fiction and nonfiction by current and former creative writing students.

Random House published Siegel’s debut novel All the Money in the World in 1997. Siegel is the recipient of the Fine Arts Workcenter Fellowship at Provincetown, the Michener-Engle Fellowship from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a Mombusho Fellowship from the University of Tokyo. All the Money in the World is “fast, dramatic and wrenching,” according to Erik Burns of The New York Times Book Review. Siegel’s writing has appeared in Nerve.com, Shankpainter, Story, Fiction International and Full Frontal Fiction.

Prior to joining UNCW, Siegel was the managing editor of the Korean Studies Publication Project at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He also served as an adjunct lecturer at the School of Continuing and Professional Studies at New York University.

For further information, please contact the Creative Writing Dept. at 910-962-7063.