The Ohio Northern University Department of English will present its 2016 Spring Reading Series with fiction writer Pj Carlisle in the Elzay Gallery of Art on Tuesday, March 22, at 7 p.m. A reception will precede the event at 6:30 p.m., and a brief question-and-answer session will follow the readings.

 
This event also will feature Erika Mortimer, a junior language arts education major from Lima, Ohio, who will read a selection of her original work.

 
Carlisle is a Lambda Literary Foundation Emerging Writer as well as the Hebert W. Martin Post-Doctoral Fellow of Diversity and Creative Writing at the University of Dayton. Carlisle’s prose has appeared in journals such as “Quarterly West,” “WHR,” NPR Pittsburgh’s “Prosody,” “Thickets” and “Gaslight: an LGBTQ Anthology.” They have been awarded a Bard College’s Mary McCarthy Internal Award chosen by Harry Mathews.

Chapters from a new novel that plays with gender have won both the Turow-Kinder Award and the AWP Intro Journals Projects Award. Carlisle is the co-coordinator of Dayton’s LitFest, which features hands-on workshops with award-winning and emerging writers from across the country. Carlisle earned a Ph.D. from the University of Utah in 2015.

 
This event is free and open to the public.