Glenn Blake (John N. Wall Fellow, Fiction, 2004) will read from his work on Tuesday, April 20, at the McGriff Alumni House at Sewanee: The University of the South, beginning at 4:30 PM. All are cordially invited to attend the reading as well as the book-signing opportunity and reception that will follow.
Glenn Blake is the author of two critically acclaimed story collections, Drowned Moon and Return Fire, both published by The Johns Hopkins University Press. His fiction has appeared in Southwest Review, Gulf Coast, Boulevard, and American Short Fiction. In 2004, he received a John N. Wall Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He teaches creative writing in The Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University and serves as the managing editor for The Hopkins Review. Blake was also an inspiration for the character Bad Blake in the Thomas Cobb novel and subsequent movie adaptation, Crazy Heart, for which Jeff Bridges won an Oscar.
The reading is presented by the English Department and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.