Fiction Reading by Lydi Conklin and Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Fiction reading by Lydi Conklin and Maurice Carlos Ruffin. Free and open to all. Public parking is available in the Woodside Garage beneath Langsam Library on the Uptown Campus, or along Martin Luther King Drive on the north edge of the Uptown campus.
Lydi Conklin's story collection, Rainbow Rainbow, was longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Award and The Story Prize. Their novel, Songs of No Provenance, is forthcoming in June 2025 from Catapult in the US and Vintage in the UK. Conklin has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award and a Creative Writing Fulbright in Poland, as well as fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Sewanee Writers Conference, Emory University, Hedgebrook, Djerassi, the James Merrill House, Lighthouse Works, and elsewhere.
Maurice Carlos Ruffin is the author of National Bestseller The American Daughters, published by One World Random House. He also wrote The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You, which was a finalist for the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and longlisted for the Story Prize, and We Cast a Shadow, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the PEN America Open Book Prize.

Host or Publisher University of Cincinnati English Department