ECU professor to read from her work

ECU’s Liza Wieland will read selections from her new book of short stories, “Quickening,” at Joyner Library on Tuesday.
Published in January by Southern Methodist University Press, “Quickening” is Wieland’s third short story collection. One reviewer has noted that it is a “deft, fleet, and luminous collection of stories” and that Wieland “has a gift for culling extraordinary prose from the ordinary human moment.”
Wieland, an Atlanta native, joined ECU’s English Department faculty to teach fiction in 2008. She has also published three novels and a collection of poetry. Her undergraduate degree is from Harvard; she earned her master’s and doctorate degrees from Columbia University. Read more…