UNCA's Writers at Home Series Features Readings by
Local Authors Jay Bonner and Michael McFee

UNC Asheville's Writers at Home Fall 2002 series begins with readings by authors Michael McFee and Jay Bonner at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 15 at Malaprop's Bookstore/Café, 55 Haywood St., downtown Asheville. Writers at Home is part of the Great Smokies Writing Program, a consortium of Western North Carolina writers and UNCA's Creative Writing Program. The event is free and open to the public.

McFee, a native of Asheville, teaches poetry writing and literature at UNC Chapel Hill. He has published six collections of poetry and edited two anthologies published by the University of North Carolina Press. His poems and essays appear regularly in Poetry, Hudson Review and Virginia Quarterly Review. McFee received the Roanoke-Chowan Prize for Poetry from the N.C. Literary Historical Association for his work "Earthly." He has also won fellowships from the Durham Arts Council, the North Carolina Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Bonner teaches writing and literature at Asheville School. He served as literary editor of the Arts Journal and currently serves as co-publisher of the French Broad Press. Bonner has published fiction, poetry and criticism in a number of publications including The Quarterly, Greensboro Review and Asheville Poetry Review.

For more information, call the UNCA Department of Literature and Language at 828/251-6411.

Media Contacts:

• Tommy Hays, Great Smokies Writing Program Director, 828/254-1389
• Jill Yarnall, UNCA Public Information Assistant Director, 828/251-6526