March 27, 2015
Novelist Larry Watson to speak at SVSU as Dow Visiting Artist
Author Larry Watson will hold a fiction reading Monday, April 13 at Saginaw Valley State University. His presentation, titled “Fiction and Families”, will begin at 7 p.m. in SVSU's Founders Hall. This event is part of the university's Dow Visiting Scholars and Artists series; it is free of charge and open to the public.
Watson is author of several novels, including “Orchard,” “White Crosses,” and “American Boy,” with a new book tentatively titled “A Cowboy in the Basement” to be published next year. His novel “Let Him Go” is currently nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and “Montana 1948" was nominated during the award's first year.
Many of Watson's novels are also published in foreign editions, and he has received prizes and awards from numerous associations, including the Friends of American Writers, New York Public Library, and Milkweed Press. He also is a writer of poetry and short stories, with many of his works appearing in various literary journals and quarterlies.
A resident of Milwaukee, Watson teaches writing and literature at Marquette University. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of North Dakota and his Ph.D. in creative writing at the University of Utah.