September 21 |7 PM

Newport Visual
Arts Center

777 NW Beach Drive
Newport OR 97365

open mic follows

Admission $6.00

Free to Students

KEITH SCRIBNER

      Keith Scribner’s third novel The Oregon Experiment was released in paperback by Vintage/Random House in August 2012; the original hardcover was published by Alfred A. Knopf in June 2011. The French translation was released by Christian Bourgois Editeur in Paris last fall.

      His two previous novels, published by Riverhead Books/Penguin, are The GoodLifeand Miracle Girl. The GoodLife appears in translation, was selected for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers series, and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

     His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Daily Beast, Le Nouvel Observateur, TriQuarterly, American Short Fiction, Quarterly West, The North Atlantic Review, the San Jose Mercury News, the Baltimore Sun, and the anthologies Flash Fiction Forward (W.W. Norton) and Sudden Stories: The MAMMOTH Book of Miniscule Fiction. He received both Pushcart and O’Henry Prize Honorable Mentions for his short story, “Paradise in a Cup” (TriQuarterly, #121).

     Scribner received his BA from Vassar College and MFA from the University of Montana. He was awarded Wallace Stegner and John L’Heureux Fellowships in Fiction at Stanford University, where he went on to teach in the Creative Writing Program as a Jones Lecturer. He currently lives in Oregon with his wife, the poet Jennifer Richter, and their children. He teaches in Oregon State University’s MFA program.