Z.Z. Packer Speaks
LSU Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803
At the culmination of a week spent filling young minds at the LSU Creative Writing Program with literary dreams, award-winning writer ZZ Packer will present a free reading at LSU’s Digital Media Center Theater, 340 East Parker Boulevard. Packer received her undergraduate degree from Yale, and afterward received degrees from Johns Hopkins and The Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. She was a Stanford Wallace Stegner Fellow, a Princeton Lewis Center for the Arts Hodder Fellow, and a Lillian Golay Knafel fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. She’s been published in numerous prestigious publications and is the recipient of several acclaimed awards and fellowships. 6 pm. Contact jwheeler@lsu.edu for more info.