Past: Nilsen Prize Winning Author J.T. Hill Reading

Nilsen Prize winner J.T. Hill will give a reading at Southeast Missouri State University in the University Center's Ballroom B on Wednesday, October 26, from 7-8 p.m. The event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. A book signing will follow the reading.

J.T. Hill won the Nilsen Prize for his mystery-noir satire on academics entitled ACADEMY GOTHIC. Critics describe the book as "smartly funny, wildly paced, tonally perfect," "the wit of Kingsley Amis with the absurdist vision of Nathanael West," and "fast-paced, hilarious, who-done-it noir jammed with jaw-dropping similes even Raymond Chandler would envy."

James Tate Hill was born in Charleston, West Virginia. A graduate of the creative writing programs at Hollins University and the University of North Carolina Greensboro, his fiction has appeared in Story Quarterly, Sonora Review, The Texas Review, The Laurel Review, and elsewhere. He is the fiction editor for the literary magazine Monkeybicycle and lives in Greensboro with his wife, Lori.