WordTheatre’s 2014 fall series
at Chapman University brings America’s finest short story writers to Orange for celebrity and student performances. On Monday, October 27, 
Hollywood actors Jason George and Roma Maffia
will bring to life acclaimed short stories by authors
Marisa Silver
(best known for her novel, Mary Coin, a New York Times Bestseller, published in 2013) and
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
(best known for her two novels, Ms. Hempel Chronicles and Madeleine Is Sleeping).

Marisa Silver

Headshot of woman.
Silver is the author, most recently, of the novel,
Mary Coin
, a New York Times Bestseller, published in 2013 by Blue Rider Press/Penguin. Silver made her fiction debut in The New Yorker when she was featured in that magazine’s first “Debut Fiction” issue. Her collection of short stories,
Babe in Paradise
was published by W.W. Norton in 2001. That collection was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. In 2005, W.W. Norton published her novel,
No Direction Home
. Her novel,
The God of War
, was published in 2008 by Simon and Schuster and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction. Her second collection of stories,
Alone With You
, was published by Simon and Schuster in April, 2010. Winner of the O. Henry Prize, her fiction has been included in The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, as well as other anthologies.

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Headshot of woman.
Bynum is the author of two novels, Ms. Hempel Chronicles, a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award, and Madeleine Is Sleeping, a finalist for the 2004
National Book Award
and winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. Her fiction has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including the New Yorker, Ploughshares, Tin House, the Georgia Review, and the Best American Short Stories 2004 and 2009. The recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and an NEA Fellowship, she was named one of “
20 Under 40
” fiction writers by the New Yorker. She lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the
Graduate Writing Program
at Otis College of Art and Design.This WordTheatre performances will take place at 7 p.m. in the Fish Interfaith Center at Chapman University.

Admission is Free. Learn more about
Chapman’s WordTheatre
.