February 2, 2007
Oklahoma author Rilla Askew to visit OCCC
Oklahoma author Rilla Askew will visit the Oklahoma City Community College campus February 19 at 2:00 p.m. in the College Union. Askew’s novel, “Fire in Beulah,” was selected as the 2007 Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma Book.
Askew is the author of Strange Business, a collection of stories, and The Mercy Seat, nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award and winner of the Western Heritage Award. Her latest novel, Harpsong, will be released by the University of Oklahoma Press in April, 2007.
Rilla is a two-time Oklahoma Book Award winner. She divides her time between the San Bois Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma and upstate New York.
Co-sponsored by the OCCC Keith Leftwich Memorial Library and the Division of Social Sciences, this event is part of OCCC Student Life’s Black History Focus Week. For more information, contact Barbara King, OCCC Director of Library Services, at 682-1611, ext. 7315.
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