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FSU’s Center for Literary Arts to Host Virtual Reading by Writer Krista Eastman

As part of its Spring Reading Series, Frostburg State University’s Center for Literary Arts will host a virtual reading by author Krista Eastman on Tuesday, March 9, at 7:30 p.m. This semester, readings will be livestreamed to YouTube and will thereafter be available on the CLA channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqtBS9H9vtPSR4Vfd3pudTw, or search for Frostburg Center for Literary Arts on YouTube.

Eastman is the author of “The Painted Forest,” which was named one of the best literary nonfiction debuts of 2019 by Poets & Writers. “The Painted Forest” also won the Council for Wisconsin Writers’ Nonfiction Book Award and an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Wisconsin Library Association. Her essays have appeared in journals such as “Conjunctions,” The Georgia Review” and “Kenyon Review” and have been named Notable in Best American Essays.

Eastman was born and raised in the Driftless hills of Wisconsin. After living in Senegal, France, Antarctica and the Eastern United States, she returned to Wisconsin where she lives with her partner and young son. She’s working on a new book called “Pionier.”

Center for Literary Arts events are supported by the Allegany Arts Council, the Community Trust Foundation and several offices at FSU, including the Office of the President, the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Department of English and Foreign Languages and Literature.

For more information, contact the Center for Literary Arts at 301-687-4340 or cla@frostburg.edu.

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