October 10, 2002

Contact: Sarah Ray

802-443-5794

sray@middlebury.edu

Posted: October 10, 2002

MIDDLEBURY,

VT - Award-winning author Brock Clarke will read from his new unpublished

works of short fiction at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 22, at Middlebury

College. The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place

in the Grand Salon of Le Château on Château Road off College

Street (Route 125).

Clarke

is the author of a novel, “The Ordinary White Boy” (Harcourt

Brace), published in 2001. His story collection, “What We Won’t Do”

(Sarabande Books), received the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and

was published in 2002. Originally from upstate New York, he currently

lives in Ohio, where he is an assistant professor of English and creative

writing at the University of Cincinnati.

Clarke’s

fiction and nonfiction have appeared in a number of literary journals,

including New England Review, Mississippi Review, Georgia Review, Twentieth-Century

Literature, and South Carolina Review. He has received awards from the

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the

New York State Writers’ Institute.

For

more information, contact Jodee Rubins, managing editor of the New England

Review, at rubins@middlebury.edu

or 802-443-5075.