March 25: Good Thunder Reading Series Features Fiction Writer Ayse Papatya Bucak

Thursday, March 25, 2021
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
First virtual event

Mankato, Minn. – Minnesota State University, Mankato will host fiction writer Ayse Papatya Bucak on Thursday, March 25 as the eighth writer who will virtually attend this year’s Good Thunder Reading Series.

All Good Thunder Reading Series events are free and open to the public, and this year the events will be held virtually. A registration link for the Bucak events is available at https://minnstate.zoom.us/j/99603118462. The passcode is 620275.

Bucak will begin by holding a workshop from 10-11 a.m. She will hold a “Talk on Craft” from 3-4 p.m. and read from her work from 7:30-8:30 p.m.

Bucak was born in Istanbul, Turkey, but spent most of her childhood in Havertown, Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and a master of fine arts degree from Arizona State University.

Her stories and essays have appeared in a variety of journals, including Guernica, Creative Nonfiction, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner and Brevity. Her collection of stories, “The Trojan War Museum,” won the Story Prize Spotlight Award and was shortlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection. She teaches in the MFA program at Florida Atlantic University and is a contributing editor for the journal, Copper Nickel.

The Good Thunder Reading Series, in its 39^th year, is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

The 2020-21 Good Thunder Reading Series receives support from the Minnesota State University, Mankato Department of English, the College of Arts and Humanities, the Office of Diversity & Inclusion, the Nadine B. Andreas Endowment, the Eddice B. Barber Visiting Writer Endowment, the Robert C. Wright Endowment and individual donors. Additional assistance comes from the Emy Frentz Arts Guild and Barnes & Noble Bookstore at Minnesota State Mankato.

For more information contact Candace Black at 507-389-2680 or visit gt.mnsu.edu.

Minnesota State Mankato, a comprehensive university with 14,604 students, is part of the Minnesota State system, which includes 30 colleges and seven universities.