TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Poet and fiction writer Fanny Howe will give a reading Thursday, Feb. 2, in 205 Smith Hall at 7:30 p.m. as part of the ongoing University of Alabama Bankhead Visiting Writers Series.

Howe is the author of more than 20 books of poetry and fiction, including, most recently, “The Lives of a Spirit/Glasstown: Where Something Got Broken,” and her collection of poems “On the Ground.” Howe was the recipient of the 2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for her “Selected Poems,” and has won awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Poetry Foundation, the California Council for the Arts, and the Village Voice. She teaches at the University of California, San Diego.

The reading is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.

The Bankhead Visiting Writers Series is made possible by an endowment from the Bankhead Foundation, The University of Alabama’s Program in Creative Writing, the department of English and the College of Arts and Sciences. For more information, please contact UA’s creative writing program at 205/348-0766, or visit www.bama.ua.edu/~writing.

The College of Arts and Sciences is the University’s largest division and the largest public liberal arts college in the state. Students from the college have won numerous national awards including Rhodes Scholarships, Goldwater Scholarships and memberships on the “USA Today” Academic All American Team.