Fiction and humor writer Seth Fried will read from his short story collection, The Great Frustration, and his forthcoming novel, The Municipalists, as part of the Wilson College Writers Series at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, March 9, in the Brooks Science Center auditorium. The reading - which will take place during Wilson's Colloquium on Creative Writing - is free and open to the public.

Twice named a Distinguished Story Fried is a recurring contributor to the New Yorker’s "Shouts and Murmurs" and NPR’s "Selected Shorts." His stories have appeared in Tin House, One Story, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, the Kenyon Review and Vice. He is the winner of two Pushcart Prizes and the William Peden Prize. Fried, who has worked as an assistant editor of the Mid-American Review, has a bachelor's degree from Bowling Green State University.