Author Ann Nietzke, a recipient of a Christopher Isherwood Foundation Fellowship, will read from her fiction at the Main Library at 2 p.m. on Saturday, September 15 in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Auditorium, 601 Santa Monica Boulevard.

Nietzke's novel, Windowlight, won a PEN/USA West Award for Best First Fiction. Natalie on the Street, an account of her relationship with a schizophrenic "bag lady" on the streets of Los Angeles, was a PEN/USA West finalist for Best Nonfiction. Her stories that have appeared in various literary magazines are collected in Solo Spinout: Stories and a Novel. Her most recent work is titled Wonders Refuse to Cease: Three Novellas.

Nietzke has received fellowships in writing from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council and the Isherwood Foundation. She lives in Los Angeles, where her work has been recognized for its incisive and compassionate portrayals of ordinary, unusual, and uncelebrated lives.

This program is free and open to the public. For more information, call the Library at (310) 458-8600; or visit www.smpl.org.