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University of New HampshireUniversity of New Hampshire Scholars' RepositoryMedia Relations Administrative Offices3-11-2005Award-Winning Writer ZZ Packer Visits UNHErika MantzFollow this and additional works at: https://scholars.unh.edu/newsThis News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Administrative Offices at University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. It hasbeen accepted for inclusion in Media Relations by an authorized administrator of University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. For moreinformation, please contact nicole.hentz@unh.edu.Recommended CitationMantz, Erika, "Award-Winning Writer ZZ Packer Visits UNH" (2005). UNH Today. 1539.https://scholars.unh.edu/news/15399/25/17, 12)30 PMAward-Winning Writer ZZ Packer Visits UNHPage 1 of 1http://www.unh.edu/delete/news/news_releases/2005/march/em_050311zzpacker.htmlZZ PackerAward-Winning Writer ZZ Packer Visits UNHContact: Erika Mantz603-862-1567UNH Media RelationsMarch 11, 2005DURHAM, N.H. – ZZ Packer, author of thenational bestseller and New York Times NotableBook Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, will talkabout and read from her work Thursday, March24, 2005, at 6:30 p.m. in the auditorium ofMurkland Hall at the University of NewHampshire. Packer will also sign copies of herbook, which will be for sale after the reading.Sponsored by the UNH English Department’sWriters Series, the lecture is free and open tothe public.Packer’s stories have appeared in The NewYorker, Story, Best American Short Stories(2000 and 2003), the anthology Twenty-Fiveand Under, and on NPR’s Selected Shorts. Sheis the recipient of a Whiting Writer’s Award anda Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award. Agraduate of Yale University, the Iowa Writer’sWorkshop and the Writing Seminar at JohnsHopkins University, Packer has been a WallaceStegner-Truman Capote Fellow at StanfordUniversity, where she is currently a Joneslecturer.The stories in Drinking Coffee Elsewhere,Packer’s debut collection of stories, take readers into the lives of people who aren’t quite sure oftheir place in society. Her characters — African-American church ladies and white intellectuals,hipsters and earnest strivers, residents of housing projects and affluent suburbs — inhabit afictional territory where America’s racial, social and sexual boundaries meet and blur.

Award-Winning Writer ZZ Packer Visits UNH

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Award-Winning Writer ZZ Packer Visits UNH

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