CANCELED: Nationally Recognized Author to Give Lecture as Part of Holy Cross Visiting Writers Series

WORCESTER, Mass. – This reading has been canceled, and will be rescheduled.

Dinty Moore, nationally recognized author and editor, will give a reading on Thursday, Nov. 13 at 7:30 p.m. in Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross. This lecture is part of the College’s Visiting Writers Lecture Series. Co-sponsored by the College’s Creative Writing Program and the Lilly Vocation Discernment Initiative’s Writers on Vocation Series, this event is free and open to the public.

Moore, born in Erie, Penn., in 1955, received his B.A. in English from the University of Pittsburgh and his M.F.A. in fiction writing from Louisiana State University. He is the author of numerous books including Between Panic and Desire (2008), Toothpick Men (2000), The Accidental Buddhist (1997), The Emperor’s Virtual Clothes (1995), and the writing guide, The Truth of the Matter: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction (2006). He has published numerous essays and stories in The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Harper’s, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Gettysburg Review, Utne Reader, and Crazyhorse.

Moore has been an educator since 1990, and currently teaches nonfiction writing as a professor in the Ph.D. program at Ohio University. Moore has also worked in several editorial positions, most notably Brevity Magazine: Concise Literary Nonfiction, which he also founded in 1997.