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Fiction Writer Featured at Lunch Hour Series

Award Winner Dana Spiotta Pens Third Novel

Written By Miranda McKee '11, PR Intern

Contact - cleogrande@utica.edu

Utica, NY (09/20/2010) - The Professor Harry F. and Mary Ruth Jackson Lunch Hour Series at Utica College will feature a local award-winning fiction author on Wednesday (Sept. 29). Syracuse University Professor of English Dana Spiotta will perform at 12:30 p.m. in Macfarlane Auditorium, DePerno Hall.

Spiotta graduated from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington in 1993. Scribner published Spiotta’s first novel, Lightning Field, in 2001 and her second novel, Eat the Document, in 2006. Lightning Field was a New York Times Notable Book of the year, and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the West. Eat the Document was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award and a recipient of the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her third novel, Stone Arabia, will be published in 2011.

Spiotta was a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2007-2008 and was a fellow of the New York Foundation for the Arts for 2008. The American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy in Rome awarded her the 2008-2009 Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize.
Spiotta lives with her husband and daughter in Cherry Valley, N.Y., where the family runs a small restaurant on the first floor of their home.

The Jackson Lunch Hour Series, instituted in 1979, presents a series of musical and literary programs each semester. All performances are free of charge and are open to students, faculty, staff, and the public. Sponsored by the Utica College Social Cultural Committee, programs begin at 12:30 p.m. and are held in the Library Concourse (musical performances) or in Macfarlane Auditorium, Deperno Hall (literary readings).

Literary programs are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.

For more information about the Professor Harry F. and Mary Ruth Jackson Lunch Hour Series, go to www.utica.edu/jackson or call (315) 792-3028.

About Utica College – Utica College, founded in 1946, is a comprehensive private institution offering bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees. The College, located in upstate central New York, approximately 90 miles west of Albany and 50 miles east of Syracuse, currently enrolls more than 3,200 students in 37 undergraduate majors, 27 minors, 22 master’s and two doctoral degree programs.
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