The Writing University website will host an online chat with International Writing Program alum Thomas Pletzinger at 12:00 p.m. (CST) Friday, Mar. 26th. Read more about Thomas Pletzinger at his website: www.thomaspletzinger.de. You can find samples of his writing at the IWP website.

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Thomas Pletzinger (fiction writer, novelist, translator, editor; b. 1975 Germany) has worked and studied in Hamburg, Leipzig and New York. His stories and poems have appeared in magazines such as BELLAtriste, EDIT and sprachgebunden. The short story “Bruck on the Floor Sings as Quietly as Monk Plays” won him the 2006 MDR-Literature-Prize. A Dog’s Funeral is his first novel.