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Violet Kupersmith. Photo by Adriana de Cervantes

Written Arts Program Presents

Bard Fiction Prize Reading

Monday, September 18, 2023
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Violet Kupersmith to Read from Recent Work
On Monday, September 18 at 6:30 pm in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), Bard Fiction Prize winner Violet Kupersmith will read from her work. Introduced by Richard B. Fisher Family Professor of Literature and Writing Mary Caponegro, the reading is free and open to the public.

Violet Kupersmith is the author of the novel Build Your House Around My Body (Random House, 2021), and the short story collection The Frangipani Hotel (Spiegel & Grau, 2014). After graduating from Mount Holyoke College in 2011, Violet spent a year teaching English in Tra Vinh, Vietnam, on a Fulbright Fellowship. She was the 2015–2016 David T. K. Wong Fellow at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, and is the recipient of a 2022 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Read some of Violet's work here. 

For more information, call 845-758-7087, e-mail [email protected],
or visit https://www.bard.edu/bfp.

Time: 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium

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