STEPHENVILLE, Texas \u2014 The Tarleton State University Department of English and Languages will host a Literary Reading and Q&A featuring author Stacey Swann on Monday, April 13, at 6 p.m. in the Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts Center Gallery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The event will include a reading from Swann\u2019s work followed by a Q&A session with attendees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Swann is the author of Olympus, Texas<\/em> (Doubleday), a Good Morning America Book Club selection and Indie Next Pick that was also longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from Texas State University and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her work has appeared in LitHub<\/em>, Electric Literature<\/em>, Texas Highways<\/em>, Epoch<\/em> and other publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to her literary work, Swann previously served as an editor for American Short Fiction<\/em>. Her next novel, also to be published by Doubleday, is expected in 2027 and explores Texas politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This event reflects the Department of English and Languages ongoing efforts to connect Tarleton State students with accomplished writers and deepen engagement with literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information, contact Dr. Walter Moore at wmoore@tarleton.edu <\/a>or 254-968-1931.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" STEPHENVILLE, Texas \u2014 The Tarleton State University Department of English and Languages will host a Literary Reading and Q&A featuring author Stacey Swann on Monday, April 13, at 6 p.m. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1006,"featured_media":1904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","wds_primary_category":36,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-department-of-english-and-languages"],"acf":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"fbarron","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/colfa\/author\/fbarron\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/colfa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2026\/03\/swann-1-273x300.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Department of English and Languages<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Department of English and Languages<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 1 week ago","modified":"Updated 1 week ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on March 26, 2026","modified":"Updated on March 26, 2026"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on March 26, 2026 4:46 pm","modified":"Updated on March 26, 2026 4:53 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/colfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/colfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/colfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/colfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/colfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/colfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1906,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/colfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions\/1906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/colfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/colfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/colfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/colfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}