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During his visit, Winn will read from his fiction and participate in a follow-up Q&A session. The reading will be held at 5:30 p.m. in the 窪做惇蹋厙 Pond Student Union Bengal Caf矇. Students from 窪做惇蹋厙���s creative writing program will also briefly share their work. The reading is free and open to the public, and book sales will be available.

The Idaho Writer-in-Residence is the state���s highest literary honor, and Winn will serve a three-year term. He will receive $10,000 as part of the award and will give readings across the state over the next three years.

Winn is author of the short story collections ���Naked Me��� and the forthcoming ���What���s Wrong with You Is What���s Wrong with Me.���  In the ���Atticus Review,��� reviewer Ryan Blacketter describes the stories as featuring young characters who ���are absurd, infuriating, and seductively wrong, while the stories themselves are mature and fully realized. Writing well about youth is next to impossible. In ���Naked Me,��� Christian Winn does it again and again.���

Winn, who lives in Boise, occasionally uses southern Idaho as a setting for his stories.             In Boise, Winn writes and teaches with The Cabin and the College of Idaho. He is the co-founder and creative director of Storyfort, Campfire Stories, Couch Surfer Artists Series and founder of the Writers Write fiction workshop series. He is a graduate of Seattle Pacific University and Boise State University���s Master of Fine Arts program. His stories have appeared in ���McSweeney's,��� ���Ploughshares,��� ���TriQuarterly,��� ���The Chicago Tribune's Printers Row Journal,��� ���Hayden's Ferry Review,��� ���Gulf Coast��� and elsewhere.

Winn���s visit is made possible by the Idaho Commission on the Arts and 窪做惇蹋厙���s Department of English and Philosophy.

For more information, contact 窪做惇蹋厙���s Department of English and Philosophy at (208) 241-2478 or schubeth@isu.edu.