Friday, January 30, 2004

Wilmington, N.C. – Dinty Moore, author and a visiting writer at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, will give a reading at 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 16 in King Hall auditorium. A reception and book signing will follow. A question-and-answer session will be held at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 17 in King Hall auditorium. These events are free and open to the public. The UNCW Department of Creative Writing and the Creative Writing Graduate Student Association are sponsoring both events.

Dinty W. Moore is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Pennsylvania State University-Altoona. Moore edited Sudden Stories: The MAMMOTH Book of Miniscule Fiction (MAMMOTH, 2003), a collection of short short stories by writers such as Bret Lott, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Jesse Lee Kercheval, and Michael Martone.

He is the author of The Accidental Buddhist: Mindfulness, Enlightenment, and Sitting Still (Algonquin, 1997), The Emperor’s Virtual Clothes (Algonquin, 1995) and Toothpick Men (MAMMOTH, 2000). “Sure of foot in complex terrain, and packing a blessedly down-to-earth sense of humor, Dinty Moore is the perfect scout for the new frontiers of American Buddhism," says Rodger Kamenetz, author of The Jew in the Lotus and Stalking Elijah.

Moore won an NEA Fellowship in fiction writing, and has written essays for The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Utne Reader, Crazyhorse, Fourth Genre, and Arts & Letters. He is currently working on a new book of nonfiction, The Stranger in the House, which examines fathers, daughters, and adolescence.

For more information, please contact the UNCW Department of Creative Writing at 910/962-7063.