GVSU Writers Series: Peter Ho Davies

ALLENDALE, Mich. -- The Grand Valley State University Writers Series brings fiction writer Peter Ho Davies to campus.

Davies, who is on the writing faculty of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, is the author of the novel "The Welsh Girl" and the story collections "The Ugliest House in the World" and "Equal Love."

He will give a reading and discuss his work on Tuesday, September 30, at 6:30 p.m. in the Alumni House on the Allendale Campus. The event is free and open to the public. Davies’ work has appeared in Harpers, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Paris Review, among others, and his short fiction has been widely anthologized, including selections for Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards 1998 and Best American Short Stories in 1995, 1996 and 2001.

In 2003 Granta magazine named him among its 20 Best of Young British Novelists. Davies is also recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

Born in Britain in 1966 to Welsh and Chinese parents, Davies now makes his home in the U.S. He previously taught at the University of Oregon and Emory University.