{"id":63574,"date":"2010-10-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/author-of-ocean-state-to-speak-at-uri-oct-14\/"},"modified":"2010-10-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T00:00:00","slug":"author-of-ocean-state-to-speak-at-uri-oct-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/10\/author-of-ocean-state-to-speak-at-uri-oct-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Author of Ocean State to speak at URI, Oct. 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2021\/05\/mcgarry_au-photo1.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"286\" align=\"right\"\/>Jean McGarry\u2019s visit part of URI\u2019s READ\/WRITE series<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tKINGSTON, R.I.\u2014October 5, 2010&#8211;Jean McGarry, a native Rhode Islander, is the author of eight books of fiction, including Ocean State, a collection of stories, some set in Rhode Island will speak at the University of Rhode Island Thursday, Oct. 14 from 4 to 6 p.m. McGarry will speak about and read from her work. Her talk, free and open to the public, will be held in Swan Hall, Hoffmann Room 154, 60 Upper College Road, Kingston campus. McGarry\u2019s visit kicks off URI\u2019s fall READ\/WRITE  Guest Writers &amp; Scholars Series.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tShe has taught fiction in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University since 1987, and was department chair for eight years. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tHer fiction has received The Southern Review Prize for Short Fiction, the University of Michigan Fiction Prize, a Pushcart Prize and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tIn addition to her books, her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Yale Review, Boulevard, The Southwest Review, and other publications.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tShe earned her bachelor\u2019s degree from Harvard and her master\u2019s in writing from Johns Hopkins. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean McGarry\u2019s visit part of URI\u2019s READ\/WRITE series &#13; KINGSTON, R.I.\u2014October 5, 2010&#8211;Jean McGarry, a native Rhode Islander, is the author of eight books of fiction, including Ocean State, a collection of stories, some set in Rhode Island will speak at the University of Rhode Island Thursday, Oct. 14 from 4 to 6 p.m. McGarry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}