TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Melanie Rae Thon will read from her fiction on Thursday, March 21, at 7:30 p.m. in Morgan Auditorium, as part of this year’s Bankhead Visiting Writers Series at The University of Alabama. The event is free and open to the public.

Thon’s most recent novel is “Sweet Hearts.” She is also author of the novels “Meteors in August” and “Iona Moon,” as well as the story collections “First, Body” and “Girls in the Grass.” Thon was included on Granta’s list of 20 “Best Young American Novelists” in 1996.

She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation. Originally from Montana, she has taught at Emerson College, Syracuse University, University of Massachusetts, and The Ohio State University. She currently teaches at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

The Bankhead Visiting Writers Series is made possible by an endowment from the Bankhead Foundation, the UA Program in Creative Writing, the department of English, and the College of Arts and Sciences. For more information, please contact the creative writing program at 205/348-0766.