Reading with Matt Bell

This event is FREE and open to the public!

We are extremely excited to announce that Matt Bell will be joining us during our July MFA residency! His reading will take place in the Rosamund Putnam Center for the Arts at 7:30 P.M. on Friday, July 17.

Matt Bell is the author most recently of the novel Appleseed (a New York Times Notable Book) and the craft book Refuse to Be Done, a guide to novel writing, rewriting, and revision. He is also the author of the novels Scrapper and In the House upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods, as well as the short story collection A Tree or a Person or a Wall, a non-fiction book about the classic video game Baldur's Gate II, and several other titles. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Esquire, Tin House, Fairy Tale Review, American Short Fiction, Orion, and many other publications. A native of Michigan, he teaches creative writing at Arizona State University, where he directs the ASU Worldbuilding Initiative.

Learn more about our Creative Writing, Low Residency MFA program at https://www.nec.edu/cwmfa.