ANN ARBOR—Author Dagoberto Gilb will present a fiction reading as part of this year’s Visiting Writer Series, sponsored by the University of Michigan’s Department of English and Office of the Provost.

Gilb, whose novels are based in the southwest, has won numerous awards and fellowships, including the Ernest Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for his collection of short stories, “The Magic of Blood.” Gilb was also a PEN/Faulkner finalist, and resides in El Paso, Texas.

The reading will be held Jan. 27 at 5 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheater. [Central Campus Map, Rackham Building at upper left center] The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Ian Twiss at (734) 647-6471.

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Dagoberto GilbErnest Hemingway Foundation/PEN AwardRackham Amphitheater