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“Horse and Rider” Author to Present at UNC Asheville

November 2, 2011

Melissa Range, author of the award-winning book of poems, “Horse and Rider,” will read from her work at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 9, in UNC Asheville’s Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum. The event is free and open to the public.

Range’s “Horse and Rider” won the 2010 Walt McDonald First-Book Prize. Range is the recipient of a writing fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Mass., a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and a Discovery/The Nation prize awarded by the Unterberg Poetry Center. Her poems have appeared in the Hudson Review, Image, the Paris Review, and other journals.

For more information, please contact Katherine Min, assistant professor of Literature, at 828.251.6602.