VOICES Reading Thursday, 4/20: Fiction Writer Greg Downs (DPC, 7:30)

Thursday, April 20, 7:30 PM, Daugherty-Palmer Commons: Fiction Writer Greg Downs, in collaboration with the Department of History, introduced by Professor Jerry Gabriel

Greg Downs is the Flannery O'Connor Award-winning author of the short story collection "Spit Baths" and the author of three books about the history of the Civil War Era United States, focusing on emancipation and Reconstruction. With Kate Masur, he helped lead historians' efforts to lobby for the creation of the first National Park site devoted to Reconstruction, established in 2017 by President Obama, and co-edits the Journal of the Civil War Era. He is a professor of history at University of California, Davis.