The Public Library announces an upcoming author event with Gladys Swan. The program will be held at the Silver City Public Library on Friday, October 28 at 5:00 pm.
Gladys Swan is both a writer and a visual artist. She has published two novels, Carnival for the Gods in the Vintage Contemporaries Series, and Ghost Dance: A Play of Voices, nominated by LSU Press for the PEN Faulkner and PEN West awards. News from the Volcano, a novella and stories, set mostly in New Mexico, was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Award. The Tiger's Eye: New & Selected Stories is the most recent of her seven collections of short fiction. Two of her stories were included in Best of the West and have been selected for other anthologies. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in the Sewanee Review, Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Chelsea, Ohio Review, New Letters, Southwest Review, Hunger Mountain, and others. She has taught literature and creative writing in the MFA Program at Vermont College, the University of Missouri-Columbia, the University of Texas El Paso, and Ohio University.
Several of her paintings have been used for the covers of her books and those of other writers. She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, the Wurlitzer Foundation, the Norton Island Residency, the Martha's Vineyard Residency, the Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain, the Chateau de Lavigny in Switzerland, and the Vermont Studio Center, where she has twice been a Guest Writer. She has received a Lilly Endowment Open Fellowship and a Fulbright Fellowship to Yugoslavia, as well as a Lawrence Foundation Award for fiction and a Tate Prize for poetry.
Novels:
Carnival for the Gods
Ghost Dance: A Play of Voices
The World of Carnival (Selections)
Short Fiction Collections:
On the Edge of the Desert
Do you Believe in Cabeza de Vaca?
Of Memory and Desire
A Visit to Strangers
News from the Volcano
A Garden Amid Fires
The Tiger's Eye: New & Selected Stories
Gladys Swan is both a writer and a visual artist. She has published two novels, Carnival for the Gods in the Vintage Contemporaries Series, and Ghost Dance: A Play of Voices, nominated by LSU Press for the PEN Faulkner and PEN West awards. News from the Volcano, a novella and stories, set mostly in New Mexico, was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Award. The Tiger's Eye: New & Selected Stories is the most recent of her seven collections of short fiction. Two of her stories were included in Best of the West and have been selected for other anthologies. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in the Sewanee Review, Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Chelsea, Ohio Review, New Letters, Southwest Review, Hunger Mountain, and others. She has taught literature and creative writing in the MFA Program at Vermont College, the University of Missouri-Columbia, the University of Texas El Paso, and Ohio University.
Several of her paintings have been used for the covers of her books and those of other writers. She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, the Wurlitzer Foundation, the Norton Island Residency, the Martha's Vineyard Residency, the Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain, the Chateau de Lavigny in Switzerland, and the Vermont Studio Center, where she has twice been a Guest Writer. She has received a Lilly Endowment Open Fellowship and a Fulbright Fellowship to Yugoslavia, as well as a Lawrence Foundation Award for fiction and a Tate Prize for poetry.
Novels:
Carnival for the Gods
Ghost Dance: A Play of Voices
The World of Carnival (Selections)
Short Fiction Collections:
On the Edge of the Desert
Do you Believe in Cabeza de Vaca?
Of Memory and Desire
A Visit to Strangers
News from the Volcano
A Garden Amid Fires
The Tiger's Eye: New & Selected Stories