5:30 p.m. Reception | 6 p.m. Fiction Reading. Sindya Bhanoo is WSU’s 2022 Visiting Emerging Fiction Writer. Her debut short story collection, "Seeking Fortune Elsewhere," is forthcoming in 2022 (Catapult). Her fiction has appeared in "Granta," "New England Review," and "Glimmer Train," and she is the recipient of an O. Henry Award and scholarships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee writers conferences. A longtime newspaper reporter, Sindya has worked for "The New York Times" and "The Washington Post." She was most recently a Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellow at the University of Michigan and a visiting faculty member at the Michener Center for Writers.

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