October 27 Readings: Susan Coll, Howard Norman, and Betsy Boyd

Howard Norman is a three-time winner of National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and a winner of the Lannan Award for fiction. His 1987 novel, The Northern Lights, was nominated for a National Book Award, as was his 1994 novel The Bird Artist. He is also author of the novels The Museum Guard, The Haunting of L, and Devotion. His books have been translated into twelve languages. Norman teaches in the MFA program at the University of Maryland. He lives in Washington, D.C., and Vermont with his wife and daughter.

photo credit: Lauren Shay Lavin

Susan Coll is the author of The Stager (Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux). Her other books include Beach Week, Acceptance, Rockville Pike, and karlmarx.com. Acceptance was made into a television movie starring Joan Cusack. She is the events and programs director at Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC.

Betsy Boyd's fiction has been published most recently in Shenandoah, Sententia, Welter, and Verb. Her short story "Scarecrow" received a Pushcart Prize. She is the recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council award, an Elliot Coleman Writing Fellowship, a James A. Michener Fellowship and residencies through Fundación Valparaíso, the Alfred and Trafford Klots International Program for Artists, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. She teaches creative writing at the University of Baltimore and serves as literary editor for Baltimore Fishbowl.