Samrat Upadhyay and Brianna Barnes will offer a writer's workshop and public reading and Q&A on Thursday, November 8 at the Salem Public Library. This event is free and open to the public. The workshop begins at 3:30 p.m. and the public reading begins at 5:30 p.m. 

Samrat Upadhyay is an acclaimed author and the Martha C. Kraft Professor of Humanities at Indiana University. His novels include The Guru of Love, Buddha’s Orphans, and The City Son. Brianna Barnes is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing, Fiction at Indiana University.