FSU’s Center for Literary Arts Presents Online Reading by Award-Winning Author Sebastian Matthews

Frostburg State University’s Center for Literary Arts will host a livestreamed reading by award-winning author Sebastian Matthews on Thursday, Sept. 10, at 7:30 p.m. The reading is free to view online. A link will be posted to CLA’s Instagram page at @fsuliteraryarts and Facebook group Frostburg State University Center for Literary Arts closer to the event.

Matthews is the author of a memoir, “In My Father’s Footsteps,” and two books of poetry, “We Generous” and “Miracle Day.” His hybrid collection of poetry and prose, “Beginner’s Guide to a Head-on Collision,” won the Independent Publishers Book Award’s silver medal. Matthews is also the author of the collage novel “The Life and Times of American Crow” and the memoir-in-essays “Beyond Repair: Living in a Fractured State.” He has also edited and co-edited several poetry collections and books, including “Search Party: The Collected Poems of William Matthews” (Houghton Mifflin), which was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize.

Matthews has received fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council, Vermont Studio Center and Asheville Area Arts Council and was awarded a Bernard DeVoto Fellowship in Nonfiction. He now serves on the board of the Vermont Studio Center and the advisory board for “Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters.”

This reading is sponsored by the Office of the President, the Office of the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Department of English and Foreign Languages and Literature, the Allegany Arts Council, the Maryland State Arts Council and the City of Frostburg.