UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Award-winning magazine writer, essayist, memoirist and Penn State alumna Vicki Glembocki will offer a reading as part of the Mary E. Rolling Reading Series at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10. The reading will be held in Paterno Library’s Foster Auditorium and is free and open to the public.

Glembocki has written for many established publications, including Parents, Women’s Health, The Daily Beast, Philadelphia, Salon, More, Playboy, and Ladies Home Journal. Currently, she is a contributing editor and columnist at Reader’s Digest and a writer at large at Philadelphia Magazine. Previously, she was the articles director at Philadelphia Magazine. Additionally, Glembocki is the author of the 2009 memoir, "The Second Nine Months: One Woman Tells the Real Truth About Becoming a Mom. Finally."

Glembocki’s large collection of profiles, personal essays and long-form narratives show her mastery and attention to detail. She has profiled notable alumni such as "Modern Family" star Ty Burrell for The Penn Stater magazine. Her “Suburbanista” column in Philadelphia Magazine has been described as “wry” and “subversive” by the City and Regional Magazine awards, which awarded her Best Column in 2014. “You be the Judge,” her monthly column in Reader’s Digest, has inspired and generated much discussion and a committed reader base since 2013.

Glembocki once served as an editor for The Penn Stater magazine and Pitt Magazine, and she worked in public relations for Dartmouth College. In addition to writing, Glembocki also serves as a consultant for many magazines and publications on editorial content and strategies. Currently, she resides in Atlanta with her husband and three daughters.

Glembocki received both her bachelor of arts in 1993 and master of fine arts in 2002 from Penn State, with a focus in nonfiction writing. One article originally written for an undergraduate creative nonfiction class taught by Penn State Professor Toby Thompson was published in Playboy — a piece Thompson said he still references in his classes.

The Mary E. Rolling Reading Series is a program offered by Penn State’s Creative Writing Program in English. The series receives generous support from the College of the Liberal Arts, the Department of English, the Joseph L. Grucci Poetry Endowment, the Mary E. Rolling Lectureship in Creative Writing, and University Libraries.  A full list of the readings in the 2019-20 series can be found at https://creativewriting.psu.edu/.