PETER ORNER

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Quick Links Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives Forum (KQED NPR) with Michael Krasny: A Discussion about Underground America with Lorena, Luis Alberto Urrea, Dave Eggers and Peter Orner New York Times/ The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo Boston Globe/ The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo New York Times/ Esther Stories Audio Link: San Francisco Public Radio/ KQED Writer's Block Audio Link: Bomb Magazine: Fiction for Driving Brooklyn Academy of Music: Between the Lines Event Lannan Foundation Bard Fiction Prize Salon.com San Francisco Chronicle Op-Ed Mmegi Review from Botswana San Francisco State Class of 2011 Authors Guild

Events SPRING 2008 April 8, Mills College, Oakland, California Mills Hall, 5:30 pm April 9-11 University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio Writers Festival with Tom Bissel, Kelly Link, and Hannah Tinti April 12 Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois Underground America Reading 4pm May 10 Marfa Book Company Reading Marfa, Texas May 20 826 NYC Park Slope Brooklyn Underground America Launch Brooklyn, New York With Dave Eggers, Jaykumar Menon, Doug Ford, and Others SUMMER, FALL, 2007 August, 23 San Francisco State University, Welcome Days San Francisco, California September 9-21 Visiting Hurst Professor, Washington University St Louis, Misouri September 24, 6:30 PM Reading, College of Santa Fe Santa Fe, New Mexico September 25, 7 pm Panel Discussion on Namibia San Francisco State University September 28 Reading, California College of the Arts San Francisco, CA October 7 Litquake San Francisco Public Library, Koret Auditorium November 14 Reading, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Between the Lines Reading, A Public Space Event also featuring a film set in Namibia by Dantia Maur MacDonald. New York, NY November 16 Reading, Virginia Commonwealth University VCU Novel Prize Richmond, VA WINTER, SPRING, 2007 January 11, 8:00 pm, Edinburgh Castle With Anthony Swafford and and Steve Elliott. January 25, 8:00 PM, Dog Ear Books, San Francisco, Valencia and 20th Street. With Anne-E Wood. Feb 1, 6:00, Poetry Center, San Francisco State University. With Chris Abani. Reading and conversation. Feb 6, Stanford University Reading by Peter Orner 7:30 pm Building 260 (Pigott Hall), Room 113 Palo Alto, California Bard College, Feb 12. Annandale-On-Hudson, New York Mercantile Library, Feb 27 New York City Virginia Festival of the Book, March 25 Charlottsvile, Virginia SUNY Albany, March 27 Faith and Doubt in Modern Jewish Fiction With Shalom Auslander Albany, New York New School, April 9 With Kiran Desai New York City Arkansas Book Festival, April 10 Fayettville, Arkansas Highland Park Public Library, April 17 Highland Park, Illinois FOCUS ON THE ARTS, April 18 Highland Park, IL University of Illinois, April 19 Champaign/ Urbana, IL READINGS, FALL 2006 Penisula Jewish Community Center, Foster City, California Litquake, San Francisco, CA October, Sargent Prize, Award Ceremony, New York City, November 2 San Francisco State University, November 19 READINGS AND OTHER EVENTS, APRIL-AUGUST, 2006 April 10, San Francisco, Modern Times Bookstore, Valencia Street San Francisco, 7pm April 24, San Francisco State University, Writers on Writing, 7pm April 27, Newtonville, Massachusetts, Newtonville Books, 7pm April 28-29, Newburyport Book Festival (in honor of Andre Dubus), reading and panel discussions May 1, San Francisco, A Clean Well Lighted Place for Books, reception 6:30, reading, 7 pm May 4, Tacoma Washington, Pacific Lutheran University, 8 pm May 6 Seattle, Elliot Bay Book Store, 1 pm May 9, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2:30 pm May 10, New York, Guggenhiem Fellowship Reception, 1pm May 10, New York, KGB Bar, 7 pm May 14, Boston, Northeastern School of Law, reading, 8 pm May 16, Galesburg, Illinois, Knox College, reading, 4 pm May 17, Iowa City, Iowa, Prarie Lights Book Store (co-sponsered by the Jewish Writers Series and The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop) 7 pm May 18, Chicago, Powell's North Book Store, 7 pm May 24, Capitola, California, Capitola Book Cafe, 7 pm May 30, San Mateo, California, Temple Beth El, reading, 7 pm June 8, Deerfield, Illinois, Barnes and Nobel, reading, 7 pm June 24, San Francisco, Grotto Works Event with Jason Roberts, Caroline Paul, Chris Cook, Melanie Gideon, Kaui Hart Hemmings, and David Ewing Duncan June 29, San Francisco, Novel Writing Seminar, fundraiser for 826 Valencia with Armistead Maupin, Ayelet Waldman, Peter Orner and Tara Weaver. Moderated by Oscar Villalon of the Sf Chronicle July 17, Chicago, Progressive Reading Series Event District Progressive Reading The No Exit Cafe, Chicago, IL Featuring: Aleksandar Hemon, Audrey Niffenegger, Peter Orner, Dan Beachy-Quick, Simone Muench, Hosted by Stephen Elliott August 18-August 26. Breadloaf Writers Conference, Middlebury, VT

BOOKS Fiction/Novel The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo "With this staggering debut novel, Orner has joined the first rank of American writers." --Steve Almond, Boston Globe Magazines and Anthologies Orner's work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly and the Paris Review,as well in Best American Stories, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and a number of other collections Non-Fiction Underground America Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives Short Story Collection Esther Stories "These are stories of unusual delicacy and beauty, and this is a remarkable collection." --Charles Baxter

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