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Reading: Hugh Sheehy and Kelcey Ervick

Saturday, July 27, 2019
5:00 pm
Irvin Hall 040

Miami University's Low Residency Creative Writing MFA program welcomes visiting fiction and creative nonfiction writer Kelcey Ervick, and Miami faculty writer Hugh Sheehy to read  their work. This event is free and open to the public.

HUGH SHEEHY is the author of The Invisibles (University of Georgia Press), winner of the 2012 Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction. His stories, reviews, and essays have appeared in a number of journals and magazines, including The Kenyon Review, Five Points, Glimmer Train, Southwest Review , Guernica, The Cincinnati Review, The LA Review of Books, as well as in The Best American Mystery Stories 2008. He teaches courses in creative writing and literature at Ramapo College of New Jersey.

KELCEY PARKER ERVICK is the author of three award-winning books of fiction and nonfiction: The Bitter Life of Božena Němcová, a hybrid work of biography, memoir, and visual art about a Czech fairy tale writer; Liliane's Balcony, set at Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater; and a story collection of suburban surrealities, For Sale by Owner. Her comics and stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Believer, The Rumpus, Quarterly West, Passages North, Notre Dame Review, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. She is the co-editor, with Tom Hart, of the forthcoming Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature.

Hugh Sheehy and Kelcey Ervick
Hugh Sheehy and Kelcey Ervick
Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing mentor and visiting writer