BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260628T082450EDT-01314SMuLg@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260628T122450Z DESCRIPTION:~ 91şÚÁĎÍř’s Department of English presents ~\na readi ng by the award-winning\, bestselling novelist\nNami Mun\nFree and open to the public\n \nNAMI MUN is the author of the debut novel\, Miles from\nNo where (Riverhead)\, which was shortlisted for the Orange\nAward and select ed for Booklist Editors’ Choice\, Booklist Top Ten\nFirst Novels\, Amazon’ s Best Fiction of 2009 So Far\, and Indie Next.\nNamed Best New Novelist o f 2009 by Chicago magazine\, she is a\nrecipient of a Pushcart Prize and a 2009 Whiting Award.\nMun\, who currently lives and teaches in Chicago\, w as born in\nSeoul\, South Korea\, and grew up there and in Bronx\, New Yor k. She\nhas worked as an Avon Lady\, a street vendor\, a photojournalist\, a\nwaitress\, an activities coordinator for a nursing home\, and a\ncrimi nal defense investigator. After earning a GED\, she went on to\nget a BA i n English from UC Berkeley\, and an MFA from University of\nMichigan\, whe re she received the first place Hopwood Award for\nshort fiction. She has garnered scholarships from the Corporation\nof Yaddo\, MacDowell Colony\, Squaw Valley Writer’s Conference\, and\nTin House Writer’s Conference\, an d her stories have been published\nor are forthcoming in Granta\, Pushcart Prize Anthology\, The\nIowa Review\, Tin House\, Evergreen Review\, Witne ss\, and\nelsewhere.\n DTSTART:20100322T200000Z DTEND:20100322T200000Z LOCATION:Birks Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2A7\, 3520 rue Universit y SUMMARY:Nami Mun Reading URL:/channels/event/nami-mun-reading-115169 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR