The UT Creative Writing Program is excited to present a reading by debut novelist Karen Parkman. The reading will take place Monday, February 23 at 7pm in the Lindsay Young Auditorium of John C. Hodges Library on the UT Campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Karen Parkman holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her work has been supported by MacDowell, Yaddo, the Sozopol Fiction Seminars, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her short fiction appears in Michigan Quarterly Review, Witness, Joyland, and other outlets. The Jills is her first novel.