KEARNEY – Dustin M. Hoffman writes short stories about blue-collar Midwesterners painting, plumbing or playing Monopoly in heaven.
A third of our lives happens at work, so he writes about those experiences and what they mean.
The fiction author will share his stories 7 p.m. Sept. 18 at Calvin T. Ryan Library on the University of Nebraska at Kearney campus. Part of the Reynolds Visiting Writers Series hosted by the UNK Department of English, the event is free and open to the public. It also includes a book signing and Q&A.
Before earning his master’s degree in fiction from Bowling Green State University and doctorate in creative writing from Western Michigan University, Hoffman spent 10 years painting houses in Michigan. Now, he directs the graduate English program and teaches creative writing and literature at Winthrop University in South Carolina.
His first story collection, “One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist,” won the 2015 Prairie Schooner Book Prize and was named a Michigan Notable Book. He is also the author of the collections “No Good for Digging,” “Secrets of the Wild” and “Such a Good Man.”
He’s published more than 100 stories in magazines and journals, including Black Warrior Review, Saturday Evening Post, Alaska Quarterly Review, Ninth Letter, Masters Review, Witness, Wigleaf, The Threepenny Review, Gulf Coast and One Story.