Delany & Khactu at the Kelly Writers House - 2/26

Samuel Delany and Adrian Khactu will appear at the first annual Cheryl J. Family Fiction Program at the Kelly Writers House (3805 Locust Walk) on Tuesday, February 26th, 6:00pm.

SAMUEL R. DELANY is a critic and novelist, with essays and interviews collected in seven volumes, the most recent three of which are "Silent Interviews" (1994), "Longer Views" (1996) and "Shorter Views" (1999).

His award winning autobiography "The Motion of Light in Water" (1988) and his novel "Hogg" (1995) were returned to print in 2004. His novel "Phallos" was reviewed in the Village Voice as "a lapidary, digital-age Pale Fire, tonally redolent of Valery's Epilinos." His other fictions include "The Mad Man" (1995), and "Atlantis: Three Tales" (1993). A multiple winner of both Hugo and Nebula Awards, Mr. Delany is also a recipient of the Pilgrim Award for outstanding scholarship in science fiction studies, and a winner of the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetime's contribution to Lesbian and Gay Literature. His scholarly interests include Walter Pater and the Oxford aesthetic movement and its influence on high modernism, as well as questions of race, gender, queer studies, and literary theory. After eleven years as a comparative literature professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a year and a half as an English professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Mr. Delany began as a professor of English and creative writing at Temple University in January 2001.

ADRIAN KHACTU's work has been published or is forthcoming in the Atlantic Monthly, Carve, Heritage, and In/Vision (or HOOT! as those in the know pronounce it). He has won the Richard Moyer Prize in Fiction and the Ezra Pound Prize in Literary Translation, as well as fellowships from Clarion West and Vermont Studio Center. Adrian currently lives, studies, and works in Philadelphia, and he holds shiny, though not entirely profitable, creative writing degrees from Stanford and Temple Universities (where he was a student of Samuel Delany).