Author Rachel Swearingen will read from her fiction when the Smith Creative Writers Reading Series continues at Penn State Behrend on April 6. Credit: John Balbach.
Behrend
Smith Creative Writers Reading Series
10:00 PM / April 06, 2023
Author Rachel Swearingen will read from her fiction when the Smith Creative Writers Reading Series continues at Penn State Behrend on April 6. Her reading, which begins at 6 p.m. in the lobby of Metzgar Center, is free and open to the public.
Swearingen’s debut story collection, “How to Walk on Water,” won the 2018 New American Fiction Prize. She also has been awarded the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and the Mississippi Review Prize in Fiction. In 2019, she was named one of “30 Writers to Watch” by the Guild Literary Complex.
Swearingen’s stories and essays also have appeared in VICE, the Missouri Review, Kenyon Review, Off Assignment and Agni.
The Smith Creative Writers Reading Series is produced by Penn State Behrend’s creative writing program, which leads to a bachelor of fine arts degree. The program is the only one of its kind at Penn State.
To learn more about the series and Penn State Behrend’s creative writing program, visit behrend.psu.edu/readings or call 814-898-6108.