Lee Peterson published a first collection, Rooms and Fields, as winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize (Kent State University Press, 2004). She is currently working on a series entitled "Into This … Continue reading Lee Peterson Reading, Art of Poetry Series
Suki Kim is the only writer ever to go live undercover in North Korea. Her New York Times bestselling book of investigative literary nonfiction, Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the … Continue reading Suki Kim Reading, Rolling Reading Series
Jennifer Haigh’s novel HEAT AND LIGHT was named a Best Book of 2016 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, and Slate Magazine, and … Continue reading Jennifer Haigh Reading, Rolling Reading Series
Cindy Clem, author of the chapbook Cat/Dog and Other Binaries, received her MFA in Poetry from Penn State University in 2005. Her work has appeared in journals such as The Normal School, Mid-American Review, Prairie Schooner, Michigan Quarterly Review, Memoir (and), and Superstition Review. Visit her website, www.cindyclem.net, to read more of her work. Cindy is a graduate of Penn State's … Continue reading Cindy Clem Reading, Art of Poetry Series
Originally from Jamaica, Shara McCallum is the author of five books of poetry, published in the US and UK: Madwoman, The Face of Water: New and Selected Poems, This Strange … Continue reading Shara McCallum Reading, Rolling Reading Series
RESCHEDULED AFTER SNOW DAY 2/7: Poet Andi Stout hails from from Belington, WV, and teaches writing in Penn State's English Department. Her first book, Tiny Horses Don’t Get A Choice, is set … Continue reading Andi Stout Reading, Art of Poetry Series
Mary Gaitskill is the author of the novels Two Girls, Fat and Thin, Veronica, and The Mare. She has also written three story collections: Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To, … Continue reading Mary Gaitskill Reading, Fisher Family Writer in Residence
Gabeba Baderoon is the author of several poetry collections including A Hundred Silences, which was a finalist for the University of Johannesburg Prize and the Olive Schreiner Award, The Dream in the … Continue reading Gabeba Baderoon Reading, Art of Poetry Series
Sunil Yapa’s first novel Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist (2016) found its way onto many “best” lists, including Time Magazine’s Best Books of the Year, Amazon Best … Continue reading Sunil Yapa Reading, Rolling Reading Series