2007-2008 JAMES AND MARY OSWALD
DISTINGUISHED WRITERS SERIES
Department of English – University of South Carolina Aiken
Moira Crone
Tuesday, October 30, 2007, 8 p.m.
Main Stage, Etherredge Center
A native of North Carolina, Moira Crone is noted for her three short story collections to date:
The Winnebago Mysteries (1982), Dream State (1995), and What Gets Into Us (2006); she has also
published one novel, A Period of Confinement (1986). With what some commentators describe as the “lyric touch of a poet,” Crone explores in her latest book, What Gets Into Us, the
interconnected lives of a dozen characters in a small North Carolina town from the 1950’s to the present.
The winner of a number of literary awards, including the Faulkner/Wisdom Prize, Crone teaches in the MFA program at Louisiana
State University. For more information on her life and career, visit www.members.authorsguild.net/moiracrone.
Elizabeth Cox
Tuesday, February 12, 2008, 8 p.m.
Main Stage, Etherredge Center
Hailed as a “writer of deep insights and with a talent for conveying a sense of time and place,”
Elizabeth Cox has published four novels – Familiar Ground (1984), The Ragged Way People Fall Out
of Love (1991), Night Talk (1997), and The Slow Moon (2006) – and one short story collection entitled
Bargains in the Real World (2001). Night Talk, which won the 1998 Lillian Smith Award for Fiction, is the “moving story of two girls who
reflect the alternate realities of black and white society”; her contemporary mystery, The Slow Moon, has been called a “compelling
and compassionate page-turner.”
Cox taught creative writing at Duke, Bennington, and MIT; she currently shares an endowed chair at Wofford College with her
husband, Michael Curtis. For more information on her life and career, visit www.elizabethcox.net.
Southern Poetry Anthology: South Carolina
Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 8 p.m.
Main Stage, Etherredge Center
To commemorate the publication of The Southern Poetry Anthology: South Carolina, co-edited by
Stephen Gardner, USCA Professor of English, and Will Wright, USCA alumnus, this year’s writers’ series
will host a reading by a number of poets featured in this landmark publication, including such distinguished
versifiers as Phebe Davidson, Linda Lee Harper, and John Lane. Published by Texas Review Press in 2007,
the anthology showcases the work of seventy-six contemporary poets who have called the Palmetto State
their home.
For more information on the series, please write Dr. Tom Mack at the Department of English, USC Aiken, 471 University Parkway, Aiken, SC
29801, call 803-648-6851, send an e-mail to tomm@usca.edu, or visit http://www.usca.edu/english/oswald.asp online.
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