Holly Iglesias

Katherine Soniat

UNC Asheville's 2008-09 Writers at Home Series continues with readings by local authors Holly Iglesias and Katherine Soniat at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 15, at Malaprop's Bookstore/Café, 55 Haywood St., downtown Asheville. The event is free and open to the public.

Iglesias is a published poet and author. Her book "Souvenirs of a Shrunken World" was chosen as the winner of the Kore Press Book Award and her second collection of poems, "Angels of Approach," will be published by White Pine Press. Iglesias teaches in UNC Asheville's Master of Liberal Arts program.

Poet Soniat has published two chapbooks and four collections of poetry already published. Her poem "A Shared Life" won the Iowa Prize and Virginia Prize for Poetry, and "Notes of Departure" received the Camdem Poetry Prize. Her fifth collection of poems, "The Swing Girl," is forthcoming from Louisiana State University Press.

The Writers at Home Series is sponsored by UNC Asheville's Great Smokies Writing Program. For more information, call the program at 828/232-5122.