MOUNT VERNON – Fiction Writer Sarah Shun-lien Bynum will read from her new novel Ms. Hempel Chronicles and discuss her work Thursday, Oct. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in Shaw Conference Room of The Commons at Cornell College. Admission is free and open to the public.

Bynum is the author of Madeleine is Sleeping, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. She is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and teaches writing and literature at the University of California, San Diego. Her newest novel, Ms. Hempel Chronicles, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award.

Bynum’s visit to Cornell is part of the Visiting Writer Series sponsored by Cornell’s English department.

For more information on Bynum, visit her Web site.