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Posted: Thursday, January 21, 2010Mick Cochrane to Host Writing Workshop on Campus
Buffalo State College is pleased to welcome writer Mick Cochrane for a reading and writing workshop on Wednesday, February 3, from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. in Bacon Hall 115. The event is free and open to the public.
Cochrane is a professor of English and the Lowery Writer-in-Residence at Canisius College, where he has three times been named Peter Canisius Distinguished Teaching Professor. He teaches courses in writing and literature, directs the creative writing program, and coordinates the Contemporary Writers Series.
Born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, he earned his undergraduate degree from the University of St. Thomas and his Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Minnesota. He published his first story, “The Lenny Green Story,” in Minnesota Monthly magazine when he was a graduate student. His first novel, Flesh Wounds (Nan Talese/Doubleday, 1997), was named a finalist in Barnes and Noble’s Discover Great New Writers Competition. His second novel, Sport (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2001), was selected for the annual New York Public Library’s Books for the Teen Age list. The Girl Who Threw Butterflies (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009) is his first book for young readers.
His short stories have appeared in the Cincinnati Review, the Northwest Review, the Kansas Quarterly, and theWater~Stone Review. He has also published critical essays on Raymond Carver, Bob Dylan, baseball literature, and the art of biography. He has received grants from the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This event is sponsored by the Buffalo State College English Department and the Just Buffalo Literary Center, and supported by the Buffalo State Auxiliary Services Grant Allocation Committee.
