Aisha Sabatini Sloan will read from her creative nonfiction for Coastal Carolina University's Words to Say It series on Thursday, Sept. 11, at 7 p.m. in James Johnson Auditorium. The reading is free and open to the public, and a reception and book signing will follow.

Sloan's essay collection, "The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White" was chosen as a finalist for the 1913 First Book Contest in 2011, and published by the University of Iowa Press in 2013. Her essays have been named notable by the Best American Non-Required Reading and Best American Essays anthologies of 2011, nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and published in Ninth Letter, Identity Theory, Michigan Quarterly Review, Terrain.org, Callaloo, The Southern Review and Guernica.

Sloan earned a master's degree in cultural studies and studio art from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University and an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Arizona. She is currently a visiting assistant professor in literature and creative writing at Carleton College and is a contributing editor for Guernica: A Magazine of Art & Politics.

The Johnson Auditorium is located in Room 116 of the E. Craig Wall Sr. College of Business Administration at 119 Chanticleer Drive E., Conway. For more information, contact Cara Blue Adams, coordinator of the series, at 843-349-2532 or cadams@coastal.edu.