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Lit Youngstown to feature poet Craig Paulenich, fiction writer James Winter

Craig Paulenich, left, and James Winter. (Contributed photos)
Craig Paulenich, left, and James Winter. (Contributed photos)

YOUNGSTOWN — Lit Youngstown's November First Wednesday reading will take place on Zoom and Facebook Live at 7 p.m. Wednesday, featuring poet Craig Paulenich and fiction writer James Winter.

Paulenich is the author of three books of poetry, "Drift of the Hunt," "Blood Will Tell" and "Old Brown," and editor (with Kent Johnson) of "Beneath A Single Moon: Buddhism in Contemporary American Poetry." He is a co-founder of the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts program and professor emeritus at Kent State University-Salem.

Winter is an associate professor of English at Kent State University. His work has won the CRAFT Short Fiction Prize, a Pushcart Special Mention and an honorable mention for the J.F. Powers Prize, and he was a finalist for the Frank McCourt Memoir Prize. He has been a Tennessee Williams Scholar in fiction at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and his work has been published in One Story, Salamander, PANK Magazine, Midwestern Gothic and Dappled Things, among others.

This story was originally published November 3, 2020 at 2:50 PM with the headline "Lit Youngstown to feature poet Craig Paulenich, fiction writer James Winter."