For Immediate Release – Lawton, OK, Oct. 4, 2007
Prize-winning writer to read work at Cameron
Prize-winning fiction writer Debra Monroe will kick off the Cameron University 2007-08 author series by
reading from her work at noon on Friday, Oct. 5, in the Will Rogers Room located in the Shepler Center.
The reading is sponsored by the Department of English and Foreign Languages. Copies of Monroe’s most
recent novel “Shambles” will be available for purchase at the reading, which is free and open to the public
and made possible by the generosity of the CU Lectures and Concerts Committee.
A native of Spooner, Wis., Monroe is a professor of English at Texas State University–San Marcos, where
she has taught since 1992. She has written two short-story collections, “The Source of Trouble,” and “A
Wild, Cold State.” She has also authored two novels, “Newfangled” and “Shambles.” “The Source of
Trouble” received the University of Georgia Press’ prestigious Flannery O’Connor Award in 1990, “A Wild,
Cold State” appeared in Elle magazine’s “Ten Best Books” list in 1995, and “Newfangled” was a Borders
New Frontier Selection in 1998.
In addition, Monroe has published short stories, essays, poems, and reviews in many literary magazines,
including American Literary Review, Quarterly West, and the New England Review. Inducted into the
Texas Institute for Letters in 1998, Monroe has also received two teaching awards at Texas State
University: the Piper Award for Teaching and the Liberal Arts Presidential Award for Teaching Excellence.
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