The University of Wyoming celebrates Women’s History Month with a free reading by writer Emily Hammond on Thursday, March 23, 7 p.m., in UW’s Hoyt Hall Mathison Library in Laramie. The event is co-sponsored by the UW Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program. Hammond is the author of a critically-acclaimed collection of short stories, Breathe Something Nice, and a recently-published novel, Milk. The Ft. Collins, Colo., native has been awarded a Colorado Creative Writing Fellowship, the Katherine Anne Porter Prize, and fellowships to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Ucross Foundation. She has published fiction in several magazines including Ploughshares, New England Review, Colorado Review and Alaska Quarterly Review.

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