Speakers and Lectures

Fiction writer Sarah Shun-lien Bynum will read from and discuss her work. Bynum, a graduate of the University of Iowa Workshop, teaches writing and literature at UC San Diego. She is the author of "Madeleine is Sleeping," was a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. Her new novel, "Ms. Hempel Chronicles," was published in September, 2008 and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2009.