![Becky Hagenston](https://www.muw.edu/welty/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2022/09/bhagenston_lg.jpg)
author of The Age of Discovery and Other Stories
Friday, October 22, 9:40am
Becky Hagenston is Professor of English at Mississippi State University. Her latest collection of stories, The Age of Discovery, won the Jounnal Non/Fiction Prize from Mad Creek Books. Individual stories have been awarded two O Henry Prizes and a Pushcart Prize. A frequent guest of the symposium, her previous collectiosn include Scavengers, Strange Weather, and A Gram of Mars.
![The Age of Discovery cover](/images/welty/authors21/covers/ageofdiscovery_lg.jpg)