News Release
April 1999
The student Zinzendorf Literary Society of Moravian College
presents a reading by Ruth Knafo Setton on Thursday, April 22, 1999,
at 7:30 p.m. in the Haupert Union Building Recreation Room, Moravian
College. Ms. Setton will read from her own works for the evening's program,
which is, free and open to the public. Ruth, who has received grants
from the NEA and the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts and has published
work in a wide range of journals and anthologies, weaves rich, magical
stories set in places ranging from the Sierre Madre to Morocco to our
very own Lehigh Valley.
Ruth Knafo Setton teaches Creative Writing, Jewish Literature,
and World Women's Literature at Lafayette College. She has authored
both fiction and nonfiction works, and recently returned from a semester
at sea during which time she taught Travel Writing and other courses,
as they traveled around the world. Her completed novel is titled, "The
Road to Fez", and she is currently working on a new novel.
Ruth Knafo Setton is the recipient of a Jakobsen Scholarship
for the Wesleyan Writer's Conference. She has received numerous grants
and awards, namely the NEA US/Mexico Creative Artist Fellowship Award
(Setton was one of ten American artists chosen to travel in Mexico to
do research, conduct writing workshops and exchange ideas with Mexican
writers, artists and anthropologists); PEN Syndicated Fiction Project
Award (her story, "Jojo", was read on NPR's "The Sound
of Writing"); and two Pennsylvania Council of the Arts Fellowships.
She has also received grants from the following writer's
colonies: Yaddo, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Wurlitzer Foundation
of New Mexico, Hedgebrook and Millay. Other works have appeared (or
are forthcoming) in journals and anthologies, including FEMSPEC, Cross
Connect, Mediterranean's, International Quarterly, f/m, Tikkun, Response,
Kerem, Bridges, Lilith, The Denver Quarterly, Inside, New Directions
for Women, and The Journal of Canadian Fiction, Follow My Footprints:
Changing Images of Women in American Jewish Fiction, Word of Mouth:
Short-Short Fiction by Women (Volumes I and II), and Sephardic-American
Voices; Two Hundred Years of a Literary Legacy.
