ATHENS, Ohio -- Fiction writer Tim Parrish will read from his work at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 6 in the Music Recital Hall on the Ohio University campus. The reading is sponsored by the Program in Creative Writing of the Department of English and is free and open to the public.

His first collection of stories, Red Stick Men, chronicles the lives of working class men and women in Baton Rouge, La. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler proclaims Parrish to be "a splendid writer with a remarkable literary future."

Parrish's stories have appeared in "The Shenandoah," "Connecticut Review" and "New England Review." He was nominated by the writer Tim O'Brien for Best New American Voices, 2002.

Currently, Parrish teaches creative writing at Southern Connecticut State University, where he has served as program director since 1994. He received his master's degree in fine arts from the University of Alabama.

For more information, please contact the Special Programs Office at (740) 593-4181.