Posted: Tuesday, March 19, 2019

University of Evansville alumnus Josh Woods will be reading from his new books at the Department of Creative Writing Coffee Hour on Friday, March 22, at 4:00 p.m. in the Melvin Peterson Gallery. This event is free and open to the public.

Woods is author of the short-story collection O Monstrous World! and the novel The Black Palace. He has edited three anthologies of fiction and has published genre and literary short stories in numerous journals, magazines, and collections, in addition to having published creative nonfiction and craft essays. He is the host of The Monster Professor, a podcast that explores the role of monsters in literature, myth, film, folklore, history, and culture (on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and YouTube).

His awards include Outstanding Full-Time Faculty Member of the Year, Press 53 Open Awards for Genre Fiction, and multiple nominations for the Pushcart Prize, among others. He is currently an associate professor of English in Illinois.

For more information, email pb28@evansville.edu.

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