Robert Olen Butler joins hosts Catherine Cuellar and Randy Gordon on The Writers Studio this Saturday. Tune in to KERA at 9 p.m. Saturday for the interview.

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Butler has published twelve novels and six volumes of short fiction, one of which, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Butler has also published a volume of his lectures on the creative process, From Where You Dream. Among his numerous other awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction and the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His stories have appeared widely in such publications as The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper’s, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Playboy, and The Paris Review and been included in such major annual compilations as The Best American Short Stories and New Stories from the South. His works have been translated into nineteen languages, and over the past fifteen years he has lectured in universities, and met with writers groups in seventeen different countries as a Literary Envoy for the U. S. State Department.

Art&Seek is honored to present The Writers Studio, which is produced by our friends at The Writer’s Garret Literary Center. Coming next: Jane Smiley visits The Writers Studio on April 19.