NORTHFIELD, Vt. – The Writers Series hosts a rare double header when acclaimed short story writer, Caitlin Horrocks, reads from her debut collection, This Is Not Your City on Monday, October 28 at 4:30 p.m. in the Kreitzberg Library’s Multipurpose Room. Poet W. Todd Kaneko will open up the reading poems from his soon to be published book of poetry, Dead Wrestler Elegies, that deal with dead professional wrestlers.

Our headliner, Caitlin Horrocks, is a rising star in the fiction community. She lives in Michigan by way of Ohio, Arizona, England, Finland, and the Czech Republic. She is the author of the story collection, This Is Not Your City, which received rave reviews. Her stories and essays appear in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories 2011, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009, The Pushcart Prize XXXV, The Paris Review, Tin House, One Story and elsewhere. Her work has won awards including the Plimpton Prize, and fellowships to the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences. Visit her at http://www.caitlinhorrocks.com/.

Our opening act, W. Todd Kaneko, is the author of the Dead Wrestler Elegies, forthcoming from Curbside Splendor in 2014, a collection of poems about deceased pro wrestlers. His prose and poems have appeared in Bellingham Review, Los Angeles Review, Barrelhouse, The Normal School, The Collagist, Blackbird, The Huffington Post and many other places. He has received fellowships from Kundiman and the Kenyon Review Writer's Workshop. Visit him at www.toddkaneko.com.

This event is presented by the College of Liberal Arts and the Department of English & Communications. All events in this series are free and open to the public. Caitlin’s gorgeous collection, This Is Not Your City, will be on sale at the event. A book signing will follow the reading.

Date: Monday, October 28th
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Location: Kreitzberg Library Multipurpose Room
Contact: Professor Sean Prentiss (prentiss@norwich.edu)