FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Best-selling author Chris Abani, the 2016 Walton Visiting Writer in Poetry in the Program in Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas, will read from his work at 7 p.m. on March 3.

The talk, which is free and open to the public, will be in in the Graduate Education Building auditorium.

Abani is a prolific writer of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. His poetry collections include Sanctificum, There are No Names for Red, and Feed Me the Sun: Collected Long Poems, and his novels include The Secret History of Las Vegas, Song for Night, and The Virgin of Flames. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the PEN Beyond the Margins Award, the Hurston Wright Award, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship, among many honors.

In addition to his public reading, Abani will be holding individual conferences with students in the Master of Fine Arts program in poetry.

The Walton Reading Series is made possible by the J. William Fulbright College of Arts & Science, the Department of English, and the Walton Family Foundation. For more about our events, visit the Program in Creative Writing & Translation website.