Writers! Poets! Friends of writers or poets! You who do not write yourself nor know anyone who writes but is a lover of words!

Two readings at Memorial Hall on the UMass Amherst campus

Thursday, December 4 at 8 p.m.

IT'S FREE

ALL ARE INVITED

LENI ZUMAS is the author of the story collection Farewell Navigator (Open City). Her work has appeared in New York Tyrant, Quarterly West, Harp & Altar, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. A 2008 fellow in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts, she teaches creative writing at Hunter College.

PAMELA THOMPSON is a graduate of Yale College and the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she received the Slosberg memorial award for fiction and poetry. Following the publication of her novel Every Past Thing in the fall of 2007, she was a MacDowell Colony fellow. She lives with her family in Worthington, Massachusetts, and works as the editorial director of Interlink Books. With Hilary Plum, she is the founder of Clock/Root Books, which specializes in publishing literature in translation.