Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series at Wilkes University Features Novelist Jean McGarry On April 17

Wilkes-Barre, PA (04/05/2018) — Contact information: Gabrielle D'Amico, director of communications, gabrielle.damico@wilkes.edu, 570-408-4510

Novelist Jean McGarry will be the featured author when the Wilkes University English Department hosts the Allan Hamilton Dickson Fund Spring Writers Series on April 17. The reading will take place at 6 p.m. in the Kirby Hall Salon, 202 S. River St., Wilkes-Barre. The event is free and open to the public. McGarry will read from her work and discuss her creative process.

A native Rhode Islander, McGarry's professional experience includes working as a newspaper reporter and translator. She also has taught writing at the University of Missouri-Columbia and George Washington University. McGarry's books include Airs of Providence, The Very Rich Hours, The Courage of Girls, Home at Last, Gallagher's Travels, Dream Date and Ocean State. Her most recent work, No Harm Done, was published by Dalkey Archive Press in 2017. McGarry's stories appeared in The Yale Review, Southwest Review and The New Yorker, among others.

McGarry was educated at Regis and Radcliffe colleges, the University of California-Irvine and Johns Hopkins University. She currently teaches writing seminars at Johns Hopkins University

About Wilkes University:

Wilkes University is an independent institution of higher education dedicated to academic and intellectual excellence through mentoring in the liberal arts, sciences and professional programs. Founded in 1933, the university is on a mission to create one of the great small universities, offering all of the programs, activities and opportunities of a large, research university in the intimate, caring and mentoring environment of a small, liberal arts college, at a cost that is increasingly competitive with public universities. The Economist named Wilkes 25th in the nation for the value of its education for graduates. In addition to 43 bachelor's degree programs, Wilkes offers 25 master's degree programs and five doctoral/terminal degree programs, including the doctor of philosophy in nursing, doctor of nursing practice, doctor of education, doctor of pharmacy, and master of fine arts in creative writing. Learn more at www.wilkes.edu.

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