The Creative Writing Program is proud to annouce the first Theodore Dreiser Visiting Writers Series event of the semester, featuring poet and novelist Jennifer Givhan, on Thursday, Sept. 24, at 6 p.m. in the library events area on the campus of Indiana State University. This event is part of Givhan's book tour for The Sleeping Sisters. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear Givhan read from her novel. A mesmerizing work of literary horror, The Sleeping Sisters follows a threatened mother and a relentless detective as a series of murders awakens something long buried in the New Mexican destert. The book has been praised by author T. Kingfisher, who called it "a marvelously strange story of murder and motherhood." "A mother’s love is the oldest curse."