Novelist and poet Stephen Dobyns will hold a public reading of his latest works at 7:30 p.m. April 18 in Room D152 on the Charleston campus of the Community College of Southern Nevada (located at West Charleston Boulevard and Torrey Pines Drive).

The reading is sponsored by Red Rock Review, the Community College of Southern Nevada, the Clark County Library District, UNLV's master of fine arts in creative writing international program, and the International Institute of Modern Letters, which is headquartered at UNLV.

Dobyns has published 10 books of poetry and 20 novels. He is the author of the psychological thrillers "Boy in the Water" and "The Church of Dead Girls" as well as the Saratoga detective series. His poetry works include "Pallbearers Envying the One Who Rides," "Common Carnage," "Cemetery Nights," and "Black Dog, Red Dog."

Among his many honors are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, as well as the Melville Cane Award and the National Poetry Series Award.

He has taught at a number of universities, including the University of Iowa and Boston Universities. He lives in Boston.
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