The Ohio University English Department hosts visiting fiction writer Nick White on Feb. 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the Galbreath Chapel on the Athens Campus.

Originally from Mississippi, White is the author of the novel How to Survive a Summer (Blue Rider/Penguin, 2017) and the story collection Sweet and Low. White is currently at work on a new novel.

White is an assistant professor of English at Ohio State University's MFA program in creative writing. His short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in a variety of places, including The Kenyon Review, Guernica, Catapult, The Hopkins Review, Indiana Review, The Literary Review, Lit Hub, and elsewhere, according to his website profile.

For more information, contact David Wanczyk, Spring Literary Festival Coordinator in the College of Arts & Sciences. See more about English Department literary events.