Zell Visiting Writers Series: Reading and Q&A with writer Danielle Evans
Join us in welcoming writer Danielle Evans for a reading and Q+A as part of the Zell Visiting Writers Series, presented by the Helen Zell Writer’s Program in partnership with UMMA, with support from the Department of English Language & Literature.
Evans is the author of the story collections The Office of Historical Corrections and Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self. Her first collection won the PEN American Robert W. Bingham Prize, the Hurston-Wright award for fiction, and the Paterson Prize for fiction
Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA’s Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu — we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you.
More About
Danielle Valore Evans
Danielle Valore Evans is the author of the story collections The Office of Historical Corrections and Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self. Her first collection won the PEN American Robert W. Bingham Prize, the Hurston-Wright award for fiction, and the Paterson Prize for fiction; her second won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and The Bridge Book Award and was a finalist for The Aspen Prize, The Story Prize, and The LA Times Book prize. She is a 2024 USA Artists Fellow, a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts fellow, and the winner of New Literary Project Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Her stories have appeared in magazines including The Paris Review, A Public Space, American Short Fiction, and The Sewanee Review, and have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and New Stories From The South. She is an Associate Professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and earned her MFA from The University of Iowa.
SUPPORT
The Zell Visiting Writers Series is a reading series presented by the Helen Zell Writers’ Program in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, with support from the Department of English Language & Literature, the Office of the Vice President for Research, and Janey Lack.