The Creative Writing Lecture Series
Thursday, February 11, 2010, 7 p.m.
Dodge Hall, Room 413
Lydia Millet is the author of six novels, most recently How the Dead Dream (2008), and one story collection, Love in Infant Monkeys (2009). Her fifth novel, Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, was shortlisted for Britain's Arthur C. Clarke Prize; her fourth, My Happy Life, won the 2003 PEN-USA Award for Fiction. Millet is also an essayist and critic. She lives in the desert outside Tucson, Arizona, with her husband and two small children, where she works as a writer and editor for a group that protects endangered species.