Contact: Sasha Steinberg

STARKVILLE, Miss.—A 2009 master’s graduate of Mississippi State’s Department of English is returning to his alma mater as the latest guest in the Price Caldwell Visiting Writers Series.

Nick White, an assistant professor of English for The Ohio State University creative writing master’s program, is giving a 5 p.m. public reading Thursday [March 22] in the Colvard Student Union’s third-floor Fowlkes Auditorium. A reception and book signing follow his presentation.

White is author of the novel “How to Survive a Summer” (Blue Rider/Penguin, 2017), which has been praised by The Washington Post and Publishers Weekly. His short stories, poems and essays have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Guernica, The Hopkins Review, Indiana Review, The Literary Review, and Lit Hub, among others. His short story collection “Sweet and Low” is forthcoming from Blue Rider/Penguin. For more, visit www.thenickwhite.com.

Established through an endowment from widow Alice Carol Caldwell and family, the Price Caldwell Visiting Writers Series serves as a memorial to Tutweiler native Price Caldwell, who served for more than 20 years as an MSU associate professor of English and died in 2015. He also founded and directed the university’s creative writing program, along with serving as president and vice president for the Southern Literary Festival organization.

For more on White’s campus visit and lecture, contact Michael Kardos, MSU associate professor of English and creative writing program co-director, at 662-325-3644 or MKardos@english.msstate.edu.

Learn more about MSU’s Department of English at www.english.msstate.edu and follow on Facebook and Twitter @MSStateEnglish.

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