The Department of English, along with UNT’s One Book, One Community program, is bringing author Stuart Dybek to campus as part of the ongoing Visiting Writers Series. Dybek, whose work focuses on issues of community identity and displacement, will participate in an informal Q&A session at 4 p.m. March 25 in Auditorium Building room 212. The reading will be at 8 p.m. in the Gateway Center Ballroom followed by a book signing with the author.

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Author Stuart Dybek will come to the University of North Texas to read selections from his work, which focuses on issues of community identity and displacement. Dybek’s reading is part of the Visiting Writers Series sponsored by the Department of English. The reading will be at 8 p.m. March 25 (Wednesday) in the ballroom of UNT’s Gateway Center, which is on North Texas Boulevard between Eagle Drive and Highland Street.

The 8 p.m. reading will be followed by a book signing with the author, which will also occur in the ballroom. UNT’s Bookstore will have Dybek’s works available for purchase.

An informal question-and-answer session will take place earlier at 4 p.m. March 25 (Wednesday) in Room 212 of UNT’s Auditorium Building, located on West Hickory Street between Avenues A and B.

For its Visiting Writers Series, the English department generally invites one fiction writer and one poet each semester to come to UNT for a reading.

The reading is co-sponsored by UNT’s One Book, One Community program. The year-long program is designed to engage the UNT community in reading and discussing a carefully selected book. The 2008-2009 selection was “The Bean Trees” by Barbara Kingsolver, and follow-up activities involved the discussion and exploration of the history, politics and other implications of immigration, a core theme of the novel. For more information about the program, visit www.unt.edu/onebook/.

Dybek, the son of Polish immigrants, grew up in Chicago. He is the author of three books of fiction, including “I Sailed with Magellan” and “The Coast of Chicago.” Both works were “New York Times” notable books. He has also authored poetry and nonfiction books. Dybek’s works have appeared in “The New Yorker,” “Harper’s,” “Best American Fiction” and “Best American Poetry.” He is currently a distinguished writer-in-residence at Northwestern University.

For more information, contact UNT’s Department of English at 940-565-2050 or Ruby Al-Qasem, creative writing assistant for the department, at 214-240-5682 or ruby_alqasem@yahoo.com.

The above text is based on a UNT News Service news release available on the web at http://web3.unt.edu/news/story.cfm?story=11385.