Author Susan Brind Morrow to Give Reading On Campus

As part of the Visiting Writers Lecture Series, Susan Brind Morrow will give a reading on April 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the Levis Browsing Room (Dinand Library). The event is free and open to the public.

Morrow has translated contemporary Arabic poetry and ancient Egyptian folktales into English. She has worked on an archaeological survey in the Western Desert of Egypt, and was a fellow of the Crane-Rogers Foundation in Egypt and Sudan. Her first book, the critically acclaimed, The Names of Things: Life, Language, and Beginnings in the Egyptian Desert (1997) was one of three finalists for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award. She has recently completed a second book - Wolves and Honey: A Hidden History of the Natural World (2004) - about the Finger Lakes Region where she lives on a farm.