RIPON, Wis. – Noted author and former Ripon College faculty member Ted Pelton will read selections from his bold works of fiction at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 19 in the Caestecker Gallery of Ripon College’s Rodman Center for the Arts.

Pelton is the author of three books – the novel Malcolm & Jack, the short story collection Endorsed by Jack Chapeau 2, and a novella, Bhang. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in fiction and a fellowship from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation. Recent work appears or is forthcoming in Brooklyn Rail, Mad Hatter Review, Fiction International, Slope, and the anthologies PP/FF and The Art of Friction. Pelton also directs the nonprofit fiction press, Starcherone Books, and is an Associate Professor of English at Medaille College of Buffalo, N.Y.

Ripon College English Professor Kate Sontag calls Pelton’s work “experimental,” and refers to him as a “fantabulous fictionist.”

His visit is sponsored by the Ripon College Reading Series with assistance from the Schang Family Visiting Writer’s Fund. For more information, contact Kate Sontag in the Ripon College English Department, sontagk@ripon.edu or 920-748-8723.

About Ripon College
Ripon College, founded in 1851, prepares students of diverse interests for lives of productive, socially responsible citizenship. Ripon’s liberal arts curriculum and residential campus create an intimate learning community in which students experience a richly personalized education. Ripon has consistently been recognized as a “best value” and “Best 366 College” by The Princeton Review, a “Best Buy in College Education” by Barron’s, a “Best Liberal-Arts College” by Washington Monthly, and is listed among the 160 best schools in the nation by Colleges of Distinction.

Ted Pelton