Writers Series to feature Chris Haven and Nicole Walker

The Grand Valley State University Writers Series has a long history of bringing distinguished and emerging writers to campus to read from their work, visit classes and interact with students. The series continues with two of Grand Valley's own writers, Chris Haven and Nicole Walker, featured on Tuesday, January 22, at 7 p.m. at the GVSU Alumni House, Allendale Campus.

Chris Haven's stories have appeared in magazines, including Confrontation, Massachusetts Review and Threepenny Review. He holds a master's degree from University of Kansas, an MFA from Southwest Texas State University and a doctorate from the University of Houston. Former fiction editor of Gulf Coast, he is an assistant professor of writing at Grand Valley and is editor of the Grand Valley Review.

Nicole Walker's work has appeared in Ploughshares, Shenandoah, Bellingham Review, Fence, Seneca Review, Iowa Review, Fourth Genre, Ninth Letter, and crazyhorse among other journals. She was recently granted an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is currently an assistant professor of creative writing at Grand Valley.

For more information, contact Ander Monson, assistant professor of writing and coordinator of the Grand Valley Writers Series for 2007-2008, at [email protected] or (616) 331-3601.