(PDF) (DOC) (JPG)January 21, 2015

Recipient of National Book Award for Fiction will give public readings

MAHWAH, NJ — Phil Klay, author of the critically acclaimed short story collection, Redeployment, will speak at Ramapo College on Thursday, January 29, at 1 p.m. in the York Room on campus. Klay will discuss his recent work and the writing process. In addition, he will give a public reading at 6 p.m in the Trustees Pavilion.

Redeployment was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor Prize and won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2014.  Klay was also named a National Book Foundation ’5 Under 35′ honoree in 2014. Klay’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Granta, and Tin House, among other publications.

Klay’s visit is sponsored by the Salameno School of Humanities and Global Studies. The events are free and open to the public.

A veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, Klay served in Iraq’s Anbar Province from January 2007 to February 2008 as a public affairs officer. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College. While in college, he went to officer candidate school. After being discharged from military service, he attended Hunter College and received a master of fine arts. He also attended New York University’s Veterans Writing Workshop.

Redeployment takes readers to the front lines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking readers to understand what happened there and what happened to the soldiers who returned. It has received numerous accolades. The New York Times described it as “the best thing written so far on what the war did to people’s souls.” The New Yorker called it “the best literary work thus far written by a veteran of America’s recent wars…a masterly collection of short stories about war and its psychological consequences.”

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About Ramapo College

Ramapo College of New Jersey is the state’s premier public liberal arts college and is committed to academic excellence through interdisciplinary and experiential learning, and international and intercultural understanding. The comprehensive college is situated among the beautiful Ramapo Mountains, is within commuting distance to New York City, was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful College Campuses in America by CondeNast Traveler, and boasts the best on-campus housing in New Jersey per Niche.com. Established in 1969, Ramapo College offers bachelor’s degrees in the arts, business, data science, humanities, social sciences and the sciences, as well as in professional studies, which include business, education, nursing and social work. In addition, the College offers courses leading to teacher certification at the elementary and secondary levels, and offers graduate programs leading to master’s degrees in Accounting, Applied Mathematics, Business Administration, Contemporary Instructional Design, Computer Science, Creative Music Technology, Data Science, Educational Leadership, Nursing, Social Work and Special Education, as well as a Doctor of Nursing Practice.

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