Date/Time
Date(s) - March 26, 2026
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Lory Student Center, University Ballroom
Categories
The Creative Writing Reading Series presents Dana Spiotta and Mark Sundeen
LSC University Ballroom at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 26, 2026
Dana Spiotta is the author of five novels, most recently Wayward (Knopf). She has been shortlisted for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize, the St. Francis College Literary Prize, a Creative Capital Award, and the John Updike Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She teaches in the Syracuse University Creative Writing Program.
Mark Sundeen is the author of Delusions + Grandeur, The Unsettlers, The Man Who Quit Money, The Making of Toro, and Car Camping. His work has been translated into eight languages. A contributing editor for Outside Magazine, his work has appeared in the New York Times, The Believer, National Geographic Adventure, McSweeneys, and Best American Essays. He has won the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award and fellowships from Macdowell Colony, Montello Foundation, Montana Arts Council and Utah Arts Council. A former river guide and Outward Bound instructor, he is an associate professor of environmental writing at the University of Montana.
The CSU Creative Writing Reading Series is made possible by the Organization of Graduate Student Writers, the CSU Department of English, the College of Liberal Arts, CSU Libraries, the Mary Crow and Deanna Ludwin Reading Series Endowment, the Lilla B. Morgan Memorial Endowment, the donor sponsor of the Crow-Tremblay Alumni Reading Series, and other generous support.