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Contact: Dr. Alex Albright, coordinator of creative writing

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ECU grad students present original, creative works April 10

GREENVILLE, N.C. (4/5/13) – Six ECU graduate students in creative writing will read from their original works on Wednesday at Sheppard Memorial Library, 530 Evans St.

The reading, which is free and open to the public, will include fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. It begins at 7 p.m. in Meeting Room A.

Readers include Todd Goodman, Elizabeth Aeby, David Sudzina, Aaron Geer, Samantha Settimio and John Hinson. Each will read for about 10 minutes.

Goodman, a Concord native, earned his undergraduate degree from Appalachian State. He has worked as a journalist in both North Carolina and Florida, where he won journalism awards from the Florida Press Club and the Florida Press Association.

Settimio, a graduate from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, writes poetry and fiction. The Altoona, Penn., native uses poetry to inspire social movement, focusing her writing on polyamory. Several of her poems recently were published by the journal Connotation Press: An Online Artifact. She is completing her master’s degree in English this semester.

Sudzina, a Cortland, N.Y., native, moved with his family to Greenville in 1998. He graduated from J.H. Rose High School and Pitt Community College before earning his undergraduate degree from UNC Charlotte. He writes fiction and is currently working towards an English studies degree.

Aeby, an Athens, Ga., native, previously graduated ECU with a theater arts degree. She now concentrates on script writing and poetry, as she finishes her master’s degree in English. She is particularly interested in the southern gothic genre.

Geer, a Western Michigan graduate, is in his first semester at ECU where he also works as an editorial assistant at the North Carolina Literary Review. He has published several stories, was co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Litribune and an editorial intern for Third Coast while at Western Michigan.

Hinson, from Goldsboro, earned his bachelor’s in English from ECU. He was an All-State baseball player who turned to creative writing after an elbow injury ended his baseball career. He writes allegories, satire and science fiction, and maintains a blog of his creative nonfiction essays and cultural criticism.

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