Doug Trevor, former editor of The Iowa Review, will read from his novel Girls I Know, at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website.

Girls I Know is about Walt, a graduate school dropout and building superintendent who survives a Boston restaurant shooting. After the shooting, he forms two new relationships: one with a privileged, reckless, Harvard undergraduate who is interviewing women about their lives for a book called Girls I Know, and the other with an 11-year-old whose parents were killed in the restaurant. Wounded but resilient, all three must deal with loss and grief and the consequences that come when their lives change in unexpected ways.

Trevor is the author of the short story collection The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space, which won the 2005 Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for the 2006 Hemingway Foundation/Pen Award for First Fiction. His short fiction has appeared in the Paris Review, Glimmer Train, Epoch, Black Warrior Review, the New England Review, and about a dozen other literary magazines. He lives in Ann Arbor, where he is an associate professor of Renaissance literature and creative writing at the University of Michigan.

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all UI-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to attend this reading, call Jan Weissmiller at Prairie Lights in advance at 319-337-2681.