Monday, December 3, 2007

Reading This Wednesday


READING THIS WEDNESDAY:


MATTHEW ECK, writer and UM MFA (’02) graduate
is reading this Wednesday, December 5, 7 p.m.
at Shakespeare & Company, 103 South 3rd Street West

Matthew will be reading from A FARTHER SHORE, a novel of warfare in Somalia in the early 1990’s. A FARTHER SHORE was the winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, and was selected for Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Series.

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MATTHEW ECK enlisted in the Army in 1992 and served in Somalia and Haiti. He has a BA in English Literature from Wichita State University and received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana. He currently teaches Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Central Missouri. He lives in Kansas City.

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