February 6, 2003 SELINSGROVE, (Pa.) - Critically acclaimed poet and memoirist Mary Karr will read from her work as part of The Writers' Institute's Visiting Writers Series at Susquehanna University on Monday, Feb. 24. The reading will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Isaacs Auditorium of Seibert Hall. The event is free and open to the public. Her memoir, The Liars' Club, was a New York Times bestseller for more than a year and was selected as one of the best books of 1995 by many periodicals, including The New Yorker, Time, People and Entertainment Weekly. The Liars' Club is the winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award and the Texas Institute of Letters Prize for Best Nonfiction. It was named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and selected as an American Library Association Notable Book. Cherry, her follow up to The Liars' Club, was also a bestseller and was named "Best Book of 2000" by Entertainment Weekly, Us and Amazon.com. Karr is the author of three books of poetry, Viper Rum, The Devil's Tour, and Abacus. Her poems and essays have won Pushcart prizes and have appeared in such magazines as The New Yorker, The Atlantic and Parnassus. Karr currently teaches literature and creative writing at Syracuse University. She is the seventh of nine writers scheduled to read at Susquehanna during the 2002-2003 school year as part of the Visiting Writers Series, which is partially funded by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. On Monday, March 17, fiction and nonfiction writer Rick Bass will visit the university. Contact: Victoria Kidd 570-372-4119 #vk/2796#