UA CREATIVE WRITERS, PRINCE AND PULAY, PRESENT READING

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - The University of Arkansas creative writing program's spring reading series continues this week with fiction writer Adam Prince and poet Emöke Pulay. Prince and Pulay will read from their work at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Giffels Auditorium

Adam Prince grew up in Newport Beach, California. After graduating from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, he taught English Conversation in South Korea for a year, then traveled through Europe with his band, playing music in the streets. According to Prince, the band has since been scaled back to one-man status, involving an acoustic guitar and some castanets tied to his shoes. Prince's fiction has won two Lily Peter Fellowships and been published in New York's Literal Latte.

Emöke Pulay was born in Budapest, Hungary, to a pair of chemists of international repute. She moved to America when she was six, and, when she was eight, to Fayetteville, where she learned to think and write in English. After graduating from Rhodes College with degrees in History and Religious Studies, she researched a coal miner massacre for the Southwest Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation Commission, and then taught English for a year in a high school in Hungary. She moved back to Fayetteville to study computer science but ended up writing poetry in the MFA Creative Writing program instead.

Pulay speaks three living and two dead languages, and has won the Gary Wilson translation award, the Felix Christopher McKean Poetry Award, a Lily Peter Fellowship in Translation and a Lily Peter Fellowship in Poetry.

The reading is free and open to the public. All are invited to attend.

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Teri McGrath, publicity director of the Spring 2003 Reading Series, Department of English, (479)575-4301 or (479)283-1200