Credit: Larry D. Moore [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

Credit: Larry D. Moore [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons
Alissa Nutting, author of Tampa — you know the book, it's the one with the cover features a buttonhole that looks a lot like a vagina — will come, appropriately, to the University of Tampa. Nutting will speak as part of the Writers at the University series. 

Nutting will read not from Tampa but from her collection of short stories, Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls. The collection has earned the 6th Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction and made it to finalist as ForeWord's Book of the Year.

The Valrico native, who has an MFA from the University of Alabama and a doctorate from the University of Nevada Las Vegas, is working on two television pilots. 

Alissa Nutting at Writers at the University | Scarfone/Hartley Gallery, University of Tampa | Oct. 30: 7 p.m. | 813-257-3514

This article appears in Oct 25 – Nov 1, 2018.

Cathy's portfolio includes pieces for Visit Florida, USA Today and regional and local press. In 2016, UPF published Backroads of Paradise, her travel narrative about retracing the WPA-era Florida driving...