Author Lan Samantha Chang to Give Reading as Part of the Visiting Writers Series

As part of the Visiting Writers Lecture Series, author Lan Samantha Chang will give a reading on Feb. 15 at 7:30 p.m. in the Levis Browsing Room (Dinand Library). The event is free and open to the public.

Lan Samantha Chang is the author of the critically acclaimed collection of short stories, Hunger: A Novella and Stories (1998) and the recently published Inheritance: A Novel (2004). Chang’s fiction has been published in The Atlantic Monthly and her work has twice been included in the Best American Short Stories Collection. She was a Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe, a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and she has received additional fellowships from Princeton University, Harvard University and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Chang has received a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts, and has been honored as the California Book Award Silver Medalist, as a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and with a Bay Area Book Award. She is currently working as a Brigg-Copeland Lecturer in Fiction at Harvard University.