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 … Continue reading Shara McCallum, Penn State Laureate, 2021-22 Virtual Kick-Off
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 … Continue reading 2021 Emily Dickinson Lecture: Alicia Ostriker
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 … Continue reading Rolling Reading Series Presents Novelist and Screenwriter Alissa Nutting
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 … Continue reading Rolling Reading Series Presents Elizabeth Kadetsky, 7 PM
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 … Continue reading VIRTUAL EVENT: Rolling Reading Series Presents Poet & Penn State Laureate Shara McCallum
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 … Continue reading Rolling Reading Series Presents Nonfiction Writer Grace Talusan
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 … Continue reading A Reading by Paisley Rekdal: Fisher Family Writer-in-Residence
Tim Seibles is the author of six collections of poetry, including Body Moves (1988), Hurdy-Gurdy (1992), Hammerlock (1999), Buffalo Head Solos (2004), and Fast Animal (2012), which won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize, received the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award, … Continue reading Rolling Reading Series Presents Poet Tim Seibles
Natasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014). She is the author of five collections of … Continue reading CANCELED: Natasha Trethewey to Read as 2022 Dickinson Lecturer
XU XI 許素細 (b. 1954) is a former Indonesian national of Chinese descent from Hong Kong who became a U.S. national at the age of 33. An author of fifteen … Continue reading Rolling Reading Series Presents Xu Xi 許素細