Austin Peay State University Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts to hold reading event

Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University welcomes two local authors to campus, as Andrea Spofford and Amy Wright will read excerpts of their works on Wednesday, April 1st at 4:00pm at the Morgan University Center, room 303. The event is free and open to the public.

Spofford is the author of two chapbooks, titled “Everything Combustible” and “Qikiqtagruk: Almost an Island.” Her first full-length book, “The Pine Effect,” is forthcoming from Red Paint Hill Publishing. A native Californian transplanted to the South, Spofford is poetry editor for Zone 3 Press, APSU’s literary press, and an assistant professor of English at APSU.

Wright, an associate professor of English at APSU, is the nonfiction editor of Zone 3 Press, and the author of five chapbooks. Her work can also be found in Brevity, DIAGRAM, Southern Poetry Anthology (Volumes III and VI), Quarterly West, Tupelo Quarterly and is forthcoming in CALYX and Kenyon Review.

For more information, contact the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts at 931.221.7876.

Spofford can be reached at www.andreaspofford.com, while more information on Wright can be found at www.awrightawright.com