March 20: Minnesota State Mankato's Good Thunder Reading Series Continues with Visit from Writer Carson Faust

Thursday, March 20, 2025
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
First event is workshop

Mankato, Minn. – Minnesota State University, Mankato’s 2024-2025 Good Thunder Reading Series will host writer Carson Faust on Thursday, March 20 in the series’ fourth event of the 2024-2025 academic year.

All of the events are free and open to the public.

March 20 schedule:

• 10-11 a.m. – Workshop, Memorial Library, 1034 meeting room
• 3-3:50 p.m. – Craft Talk, Centennial Student Union, Room 253/4/5
• 7:30-8:15 p.m. – Reading, Centennial Student Union, Room 253/4/5. Books will be available for purchase.

The following information about the writer was provided by the Good Thunder Reading Series:

Carson Faust, who earned a master of fine arts degree from Minnesota State Mankato, is the debut author of “When the Living Haunt the Dead” (Viking, 2025). He is two-spirit and an enrolled member of the Edisto Natchez-Kusso Tribe of South Carolina. He is the recipient of artist fellowships from the McKnight Foundation and the Jerome Hill Foundation. His fiction has appeared in TriQuarterly, ANMLY, Waxwing Magazine, among other journals, and has been anthologized in “Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (Vintage, 2023). He lives in Minnesota, where he works in the philanthropic sector, and is at work on a second novel.

Founded in 1981, the Good Thunder Reading Series brings nationally and internationally acclaimed writers from diverse backgrounds and literary traditions to Mankato, Minnesota, with the goal of promoting access to great literature, inspiring creativity, and connections in our communities, and fostering lively conversations about how writers work and why writing matters.

The Good Thunder Reading Series is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

The 2024-25 Good Thunder Reading Series also receives support from Minnesota State Mankato’s Department of Creative Arts; College of Humanities and Social Sciences; Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; the Nadine B. Andreas Endowment; the Eddice B. Barber Visiting Writer Endowment; the Robert C. Wright Endowment; the Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council; Friends of the Library; and individual donors.

For more information or to get involved, contact Robin Becker, a creative writing faculty member at Minnesota State Mankato, at robin.becker@mnsu.edu, or visit gt.mnsu.edu.

Minnesota State Mankato, a comprehensive university with 15,251 students, is part of the Minnesota State system, which includes 26 colleges and seven universities.