Her honors include two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. McHugh is a faculty member in the Masters of Fine Arts Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and has held chairs at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Alabama and the University of Cincinnati. McHugh appears at UTSA as part of the Creative Writing Series, which features prominent writers each spring. The series is co-sponsored by the College of Liberal and Fine Arts, Advisory Council Member Jerald Winakur and the Division of English, Classics, Philosophy and Communication. The lecture is being held in conjunction with Women's History Week March 5-9.
Admission is free and open to the public.
A book-signing will follow the lecture. For more information, call 458-4376.