Fisher Family Writer-in-Residence--Virtual Reading Cary C Holladay Click to join: ZOOM Link to Event Cary Holladay’s publications include eight volumes of fiction, most recently Brides in the Sky: Stories and a Novella (Swallow/Ohio UP 2019), and more than 100 short stories or essays in journals and anthologies, including Alaska Quarterly Review, The Cincinnati Review, Ecotone, […]
Join Penn State English Professors Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Shara McCallum for an intimate look at the biography and craft of Jane Rohrer, the Field Language poet whose words often revealed complex relationships through everyday life. This event is sponsored by the Palmer Museum of Art and is one of a series of events offered in connection […]
James Charlesworth’s first novel, The Patricide of George Benjamin Hill, was published in 2019. He is a frequent contributor of music-related essays for marchxness.com, and his short fiction has appeared in Natural Bridge and was a finalist in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers. James is a member of the Advisory Board of the Writers Association of Northern […]
Join English students and faculty across the state for an informal interview and Q&A with 2021-22 Penn State Laureate Shara McCallum. Register in advance for this webinar at https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8sudwOktRsOrUtblK1vj3w Visit the Penn State Laureate page for more information, including latest news and upcoming events. During her year as Laureate, in addition to events around the […]
Alicia Ostriker will give a reading as the 2021 Emily Dickinson Lecturer, an annual event sponsored by Penn State alumni George and Barbara Kelly, the Penn State English Department, and the College of the Liberal Arts. This will be a VIRTUAL event, presented as a webinar on Zoom. Advance registration for this virtual event is […]
Alissa Nutting is the author of the story collection Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls, as well as the novels Tampa and Made for Love. A television series based on Made for Love, co-written and produced by Nutting, premiered on HBO Max in April 2021. She is an assistant professor of English at Grinnell College in Iowa. This is a virtual event to be presented via Zoom webinar. Register here.
Elizabeth Kadetsky’s The Memory Eaters was named among “great books from small presses to read now” by Buzzfeed during the COVID pandemic, and was featured in the Boston Globe, The Rumpus, She Reads, and elsewhere. She is the author of the memoir First There is a Mountain (Dzanc Books rEprint series, 2019; and Little Brown, 2004), the novella On the Island at the Center of the Center of the World (Nouvella, 2015), and the short […]
From Jamaica, and born to a Jamaican father and Venezuelan mother, Shara McCallum is the author of six books published in the US & UK, including No Ruined Stone. McCallum’s poems and essays have appeared in journals, anthologies, and textbooks throughout the US, Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and Israel. La historia es un cuarto/History is a Room, an anthology of poems selected from […]
Grace Talusan is the author of the memoir, The Body Papers, a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, the winner in nonfiction for the Massachusetts Book Awards, and the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing. Her short story, "The Book of Life and Death," was chosen for the 2020 Boston Book Festival's One City One Story program and was […]
Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee; the hybrid-genre photo-text memoir Intimate; the book-length essay The Broken Country: On Trauma, A Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam; and a book on cultural appropriation in literature titled Appropriate: A Provocation, published by W.W. Norton in February 2021. She is also the author […]