UO Today With Danielle Evans

Fiction writer Danielle Evans, winner of the 2011 National Book Foundation's 5 under 35 honor, discusses her writing and reads from her short story collection Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self. The book won the 2011 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. Evans talks about how she develops the voice and complexity of her characters. She gave a reading at the UO on April 12, 2018 as a guest of the English Department, with support from the Oregon Humanities Center's Coleman-Guitteau Professorship.