Shoemaker to give public reading Thursday

Karen Gettert Shoemaker
Karen Gettert Shoemaker

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CHADRON – As part of the Distinguished Visiting Writer Series, author Karen Gettert Shoemaker will give a public reading at the Chicoine Atrium located in the Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center Thursday at 7 p.m.

The reading, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the 黑料大事记 State College English and Humanities department in collaboration with Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.

Shoemaker, who works as a faculty mentor in the University of Nebraska Omaha鈥檚 Master of Fine Arts Writing Program, is the author of 鈥淣ight Sounds and Other Stories鈥 and 鈥淭he Meaning of Names.鈥

鈥淭he Meaning of Names鈥 has received plenty of critical acclaim. It was the One Book One Nebraska selection in 2016, the Omaha Public Library鈥檚 Omaha Reads selection in 2014 and it is included on the Humanities Nebraska Governor鈥檚 Lecture World War I Recommended Reading List.

Shoemaker has also won several writing awards, including a Nebraska Press Association Award for Feature Writing, two Independent Artist Fellowship Awards from the Nebraska Arts Council and a Nebraska Book Award for Short Fiction.

Her work has been published in 鈥淭he London Independent,鈥 鈥淧rairie Schooner,鈥 鈥淭he South Dakota Review,鈥 and the anthologies 鈥淎 Different Plain: Contemporary Nebraska Fiction Writers,鈥 鈥淭imes of Sorrow and Grace,鈥 鈥淎n Untidy Season,鈥 and 鈥淣ebraska Presence: An Anthology of Poetry.鈥

-CSC College Relations

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