KEARNEY – Fiction writer Ashley Wurzbacher will share her work as part of the University of Nebraska at Kearney’s Reynolds Visiting Writers Series.
The reading is scheduled for 7 p.m. Oct. 17 in the Discovery Hall atrium on campus. It’s free and open to the public.
Wurzbacher is the author of the novel “How to Care for a Human Girl” and the short story collection “Happy Like This,” which won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. In 2019, she was named one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” honorees.
Her short stories have appeared in The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, The Cincinnati Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Gettysburg Review and other journals.
Wurzbacher earned her Master of Fine Arts from Eastern Washington University and doctorate in literature and creative writing from the University of Houston. She currently lives in Birmingham, Alabama, and teaches creative writing at the University of Montevallo.
