Sep 24, 2026 5:30 pm
KRANNERT CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS stage 5
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Join us for a reading by author Mary Helen Specht!
Mary Helen Specht is the author of the forthcoming novel Mudlark (July 2026) and the novel Migratory Animals, a New York Times Editors' Choice and winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Best First Fiction Award and the Writers’ League of Texas Fiction Prize. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Prairie Schooner, and numerous other publications. A Fulbright Scholar to Nigeria and Dobie-Paisano Writing Fellow, Specht currently teaches creative writing at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, where she lives with her family. She was recently inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters.