Janet Peery, 22nd ODU Literary Festival
Document Type
Featured Participant
Festival Date
10-13-1999
Location
Chandler Recital Hall, Diehn Center for the Performing Arts
Author/Artist Bio
Janet Peery's stories have appeared in Best American Stories, Pushcart Prize Anthology, American Short Fiction, New Virginia Review, Southwest Review, Shenandoah and other magazines. Her first book, Alligator Dance, appeared in 1993; her novel, The River Beyond the World, published in 1996, was a National Book Award Finalist. She has received awards and grants form the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Whiting Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Dorothy Allison, in The New York Times Book Review, said, "The people in Janet's first collection of stories pull you in, startle you, stay with you long after you have finished the book . . ." Peery teaches in the MFA program at Old Dominion University.
Description
Peery read with Luisa A. Igloria, Michael Pearson, Sheri Reynolds, and Tim Seibles on Wednesday, October 13th, 1999 at 8:00 p.m.
Recommended Citation
Peery, Janet, "Janet Peery, 22nd ODU Literary Festival" (1999). 22nd Annual Literary Festival at ODU: October 11-15, 1999. 11.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/litfest-1999/11
Comments
No video available.