The Living Writers Reading Series presents David Vann. David Vann writes both fiction and non-fiction and has won several awards, including the Grace Paley Prize 2007, California Book Award 2008, the Prix Medicis 2010, and the Premi Libreter 2011. David Vann’s work has been published by 22 different publishers in 16 different languages. His books have appeared on 43 Best Book lists in 10 countries. His works include Caribou Island, Sukkwan Island, A Mile Down and Legends of a Suicide. 

David Vann is an assistant professor of English at University of San Francisco. He teaches creative nonfiction and fiction. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University.

For more information about the event, please contact Micah Perks by email at meperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore.

The Fall 2011 Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Fund, the Porter Hitchcock Fund, the UCSC Literature Department, and the Sain Endowment.