Elizabeth McCracken, a former public librarian, is the author of four books: An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, The Giant’s House (a finalist for the National Book Award), Niagara Falls All Over Again (winner of the L. L. Winship/PEN New England award), and the short story collection Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry. She is frequently a faculty member at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has received grants and awards from numerous organizations, including the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Guggenheim Foundation.

The author will be available to sign books after the lecture. As always, books will be available for purchase on site.

UMMA is pleased to be the site for the Department of English Program in Creative Writing Zell Visiting Writers Series, which brings outstanding writers each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from UM alumna Helen Zell (’64). For more information, please see http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp