Described by Publishers Weekly as "a master or narrative pacing," and by the San Francisco Chronicle as "a formidable talent," Reginald McKnight is the author of two collections of short stories, Moustapha's Eclipse and The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas, and a novel, I Get On The Bus. In 1988, he received the Drue Heinz Award for Moustapha's Eclipse followed by, in 1989 and 1990, the Kenyon Review Award for Fiction, the Ernest Hemingway Foundation Special Citation and an O. Henry Award. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Colorado College, then won a fellowship that enabled him to travel and write in Africa. Reginald McKnight now resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he teaches at Carnegie-Mellon University. [extracted from 1993 brochure]

16th Annual Literary Festival (1993)

20th Annual Literary Festival