The University of Findlay will host a reading by fiction writer David James Poissant at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30, in the Malcolm Dining Hall of the Gardner Fine Arts Pavilion as part of the Fall Writers Series.
   
The reading is a free event and is open to students, faculty, staff and community members. Poissant’s visit is sponsored by the University’s English department, Convocations Committee and the College of Liberal Arts.
   
While on campus, Poissant also will speak to an English class at UF.
   
Poissant’s short stories have appeared in Playboy, The Chicago Tribune, Willow Springs, The Chattahoochee Review, Southern Indiana Review, Redivider and in the anthologies “Best New American Voices 2008” and “New Stories from the South 2008.”
   
He won the Playboy College Fiction Contest, the AWP Quickie Contest, the George Garrett Fiction Award, second place in the Atlantic Monthly Student Writing Contest and runner-up for the 2006 Nelson Algren Award. He was twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
   
Poissant holds a master of fine arts degree from the University of Arizona and is a doctoral candidate at the University of Cincinnati. He resides in Cincinnati with his wife, Marla.
   
For more information, contact Marianna Hofer at hofer@findlay.edu or 419-434-4721.