• October 2023: Fred R. Brown Award winner Elaine Hsieh Chou

    Thursday, October 12, 2023

    7:30 PM

    Room to Be Announced

    Join us for an evening of reading and conversation with the 2023 Fred R. Brown Award Winner

  • February 2024: Camille Rankine, Visiting Poet-in-Residence

    Our Visiting Poet-in-Residence will be Camille Rankine. She is author of the poetry collection Incorrect Merciful Impulses, published by Copper Canyon Press in 2016,

  • March 2024: Acclaimed Writer Jo Ann Beard

    March 21, 2024

    7:30 PM 

    Heinz Chapel 

    Jo Ann Beard is the author of two collections, Festival Days and The Boys of My Youth, and a

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  • October 2023: Fred R. Brown Award winner Elaine Hsieh Chou

    Thursday, October 12, 2023

    7:30 PM

    Room to Be Announced

    Join us for an evening of reading and conversation with the 2023 Fred R. Brown Award Winner Elaine Hsieh Chou. Elaine Hsieh Chou is a Taiwanese American writer from California. Her debut novel DISORIENTATION (Penguin Press) was a New York Times Editors' Choice Book, an NPR Best Book of 2022 and an NYPL Young Lions Finalist. A former Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow at NYU and NYFA Artist Fellow, her Pushcart Award-winning short fiction appears in Guernica, Black Warrior Review, Tin House Online, Ploughshares, The Atlantic and elsewhere. As a writing and workshop instructor, she has taught fiction for NYU, Catapult, Accent Society, Kundiman and Tin House. Her multi-genre short story collection WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM is forthcoming from Penguin Press.

  • February 2024: Camille Rankine, Visiting Poet-in-Residence

    Our Visiting Poet-in-Residence will be Camille Rankine. She is author of the poetry collection Incorrect Merciful Impulses, published by Copper Canyon Press in 2016, and the chapbook Slow Dance with Trip Wire, which was selected by Cornelius Eady for the Poetry Society of America's 2010 New York Chapbook Fellowship. She's also the recipient of a 2010 Discovery Poetry Prize, and fellowships from the National Endowments for the Arts, Macdowell, and the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference. She is a graduate of Harvard University and received an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University School of the Arts. 

    Thursday, February 15th, 2024

    6:00PM

    Cathedral of Learning Room 501

  • March 2024: Acclaimed Writer Jo Ann Beard

    March 21, 2024

    7:30 PM 

    Heinz Chapel 

    Jo Ann Beard is the author of two collections, Festival Days and The Boys of My Youth, and a novel, In Zanesville. Her work has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in upstate New York. 

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