Andrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of The Story of a Marriage, which The New York Times has called an “inspired, lyrical novel,” and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, which was named a Best Book of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune. His first novel, The Path of Minor Planets, and his story collection, How It Was for Me, were also published to wide acclaim. Greer’s stories have appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, and The New Yorker, and have been anthologized in The Book of Other People and Best American Nonrequired Reading. He is the recipient of the PEN/O’Henry Prize for Short Fiction, the Northern California Book Award, the California Book Award, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Award.

Each quarter, the Living Writers Reading Series brings visiting authors and poets to UC Santa Cruz to give students an in-depth look into the world of the working writer.  Sponsored by Oakes College and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund.