Past: Kate Bernheimer, "Living Master of the Fairy Tale"

“Fairy Tales: Lecture and Reading,”

7 p.m., Glenn Auditorium in the Dempster Building of Southeast Missouri State University

Free and Open to the Public, ages high school and up

Kate is the author of a novel trilogy and the story collections "Horse, Flower, Bird" and "How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales" (Coffee House Press) and the editor of four anthologies, including the World Fantasy Award winning and bestselling "My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales" and the World Fantasy Award nominee "xo Orpheus: 50 New Myths" (both with Penguin). Her co-authored novella with Laird Hunt, "Office at Night" (Coffee House Press/Walker Art Center) is a nominee for the Shirley Jackson Awards. She is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where she teaches fairy tales and creative writing. Bernheimer is also founder and editor of the journal "Fairy Tale Review," and the author of an acclaimed book for children, "The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum," chosen as a best picture book of the year by "Publishers Weekly" in 2008. Her most recent book for children is "The Lonely Book," illustrated by Chris Sheban and an Amazon.com “Best Books of the Month” selection for May 2012.

A booksigning will follow the talk.