Bestselling author to hold reading of fiction works at USI

Dan Chaon, New York Times bestselling author, will hold a reading of his recent works at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, March 29 in the Griffin Center located on the University of Southern Indiana campus. Part of the Southern Indiana Reading Series, the event is free and open to the public.

Chaon's most recent book is Ill Will, a national bestseller named one of the 10 best books of 2017 by Publishers Weekly.  Other works include the short story collection and finalist for the Story Prize Stay Awake (2012), the national bestseller Await Your Reply, and Among the Missing, a finalist for the National Book Award.

Chaon's fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize Anthologies, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. Chaon has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction, the Shirley Jackson Award, and he was the recipient of an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Ohio and is the Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College.

The Southern Indiana Reading Series is sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, Indiana Arts Commission, Vanderburgh Community Foundation Alliance and the USI Society for Arts and Humanities. For more information, contact Dr. Casey Pycior, USI assistant professor of English, at cpycior@usi.edu.