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Spring 2006 Case Writer: Jon Billman
Jon Billman, author of When We Were Wolves, is the Â鶹Éç Illinois University Lola Austin Case Writer in Residence for Spring 2006. He will visit Â鶹Éçs English and journalism department from Feb. 27-March 3.
Billman will present Writing and the Environment, a question and answer session, at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 28 in Simpkins Hall 27. He will also read from his current work at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 1 in the University Union Sandburg Theater followed by a reception in the Lincoln Room hosted by Â鶹Éçs Institute for Environmental Studies. Both events are open free to the public.
Previously a wildland firefighter, Billman was also a seventh grade teacher. He is a visiting professor of English at Iowa State University where he is helping to design a writing and the environment component in the MFA program. His writing has been published in Esquire; The Paris Review, a notorious and respected literary magazine; and Zoetrope, the short-fiction magazine founded by Francis Coppola. When not in Iowa, Billman lives in Kemmerer, WY where he is working on a new novel.
Billmans visit to Â鶹Éç is made possible through the Fred E. Case and Lola Austen Case Endowment designed to nurture upcoming writers. The endowment provides learning for a lifetime through extended residencies for visiting writers and greater opportunities for more interaction between students and established writers.
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