UNCA's Writers at Home Series Wraps Up with Readings by
Ron Rash, Michael Chitwood

UNC Asheville's Writers at Home spring series concludes with readings by Ron Rash and Michael Chitwood at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 18, at Malaprop's Bookstore/Café, 55 Haywood St. Writers at Home is part of the Great Smokies Writing Program. The event is free and open to the public.

Rash, a teacher at Tri-County Tech and visiting writer at the University of South Carolina, is the author of three poetry collections and two story collections. His novel, "One Foot in Eden," won the Novella Festival Award and is a finalist in Forword Magazine's Literary Novel of the Year. Rash won an NEA poetry fellowship and his work has recently appeared in Oxford American, Yale Review and Southern Review.

Chitwood, a visiting lecturer at UNC Chapel Hill, is the author of four books. His most recent, "Gospel Road Going," is a homage to the Blue Ridge Mountains and their people. Chitwood's work has appeared in The New Republic, Southern Review and numerous other journals. He also has published a book of essays, drawn from his public radio commentaries, called "Hitting Below the Bible Belt."

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

Media Contacts:

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