For the fourth year, novelist and Edelstein-Keller Professor of Creative Writing Charles Baxter hosts the Creative Writing Program's Hunger Relief Benefit reading. The event features Creative Writing faculty, including Baxter, poets Peter Campion and Maria Damon, poet/flash fiction writer Ray Gonzalez, and novelist Julie Schumacher. Baxter is the author of Gryphon: New and Selected Stories (Pantheon, 2011) and The Soul Thief (2008), among other fictional works. His nonfiction includes The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot (2007), which won a Minnesota Book Award. The event is free with a suggested donation of $5.00. Proceeds will benefit Second Harvest Heartland, the Midwest's largest food bank. Sponsored by the Edelstein-Keller Visiting Writers Series.
