Join the Ulrich Museum of Art for a fiction reading by author Bee Sacks at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 21 in the Dr. Sam & Jacqui Kouri Collection Study Center in the Ulrich Museum. A reception will start at 5:30 p.m. Bee holds an MFA from the Programs in Writing at the University of Irvine, California. Their debut novel, “City of a Thousand Gates,” published under the name Rebecca Sacks, was awarded the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for fiction. Their second novel, “The Lover,” was published in 2023. A former journalist, Bee worked at Vanity Fair for several years before moving to Israel-Palestine to study sacred Jewish texts. They live in Los Angeles with their dog, Pupik. Writing Now Reading Now is cosponsored by the Department of English, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Watermark Books & Café and the Ulrich Museum of Art. The event is open to everyone.