Location: Downtown Branch at Slover, Community Engagement Room 650
Join us for a writing talk featuring Siobhan Fallon as part of ODU's 49th Annual Literary festival!
Siobhan Fallon is the author of the PEN Center USA Literary Fiction Award-winning short story collection, You Know When the Men Are Gone, which was a Best Book Pick of 2011 by The San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Public Library, Self Magazine, and The New York Times, as well as the novel, The Confusion of Languages. Both examine military life at home and abroad. Siobhan’s essays and stories have been featured in The New York Times Modern Love, Washington Post Magazine, NPR’s Morning Edition, Woman’s Day, Good Housekeeping, Stars and Stripes, The Huffington Post, Prairie Schooner, Guernica, the anthology Fire & Forget: Short Stories from the Long War, among others. Her current work is inspired by real events and explores the many controversies surrounding the Battle of the Little Bighorn. As a woman and Army spouse, she tackles unique perspectives of this violent chapter in American history.
