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Join us for a reading by Philadelphia native Anthony Wallace, winner of the 2013 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Wallace is also the recipient of a 2013 Pushcart Prize, and a finalist for the 2014 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction. Currently a creative writing professor at Boston University, Wallace has published poetry and fiction in such venues as Cleaver Magazine, Atlanta Review, CutBank, and the River Styx.

ANTHONY WALLACE is a Senior Lecturer in the Arts and Sciences Writing Program at Boston University, where he is also Co-director of "Arts Now," a curriculum-based initiative to support the arts at BU. Tony has published poetry and fiction in literary journals including CutBank, Another Chicago Magazine, the Atlanta Review, River Styx, Sou'wester, 5-Trope, the Republic of Letters, and the Florida Review. His short story "The Old Priest" won a Pushcart Prize and was published last fall in Pushcart 2013. His short story collection The Old Priestis the winner of the 2013 Drue Heinz Literature Prize and was published last September by the University of Pittsburgh Press. His personal essay "In a Room with Rothko" received a 2014 Pushcart "Special Mention."