FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 24, 2003

CONTACT: Lisa Lacher, (515) 271-3119

AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR TO SPEAK SATURDAY AT DRAKE

Barbara Robinette Moss, author of "Change Me Into Zeus's Daughter," will give the 2003 Paul Morrison Relays Lecture at 10 a.m. on April 26 in Bulldog Theater in Olmsted Center, 29th Street and University Avenue.

Moss received her Master of Fine Arts degree at Drake University. She won a Gold Medal for Personal Essay in the 1996 William Faulkner Creative Writing Competition. This essay serves as the first chapter in her book, "Change Me Into Zeus's Daughter."

"Change Me Into Zeus's Daughter" is the story of Moss' poverty-stricken survival; growing up in the hills of Alabama with an alcoholic father and heroic mother. Pulitzer Prize winning screenwriter, Marsha Norman, is currently writing a screenplay of the book that will be produced by Goldie Hawn.

The 2003 Paul Morrison Relays Lecture is sponsored by Drake University's English Department Writers and Critics Series, Office of the Provost and Office of Alumni and Parent Programs. For more information, call (515) 271-3969.