AY22-23 Reading Series
The Creative Writing Program hosts an annual reading series featuring writers from across the country. Visitors conduct a Craft Talk for our undergraduate students in addition to giving a public reading.
Readings are free and open to the public.
Fall 2022
Wednesday • October 19, 2022
Fiction
Mat Johnson
Professor
Mat Johnson is a recipient of the American Book Award, the United States Artist James Baldwin Fellowship, The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. He is the Philip H. Knight Chair of the Humanities at the University of Oregon.
For more, visit this author’s website and CRWR Faculty Profile.
Wednesday • November 2, 2022
Poetry
Betsy Bonner
Visiting Assistant Professor
Betsy Bonner is the author of Round Lake, a poetry collection published by Four Way Books. She is a faculty member of the Writer’s Foundry M.F.A. program at St. Joseph’s College in Brooklyn, New York and the former Director of the 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center, where she teaches an annual poetry seminar. Her work has appeared in The New Republic, The Paris Review, Parnassus, Poetry Daily, The Brooklyn Quarterly and The Southampton Review. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. She is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony, Eliot House and the VCCA, and a mentor in PEN’s Prison Writing Program.
For more, visit CRWR Faculty Profile.
WINTER 2023
Wednesday • January 18, 2023
Joint Poetry Reading featuring UO MFA Alum
Jayme Ringleb
Jayme Ringleb is a queer writer raised in the southern United States and northern Italy. Poems from Jayme’s debut poetry collection, So Tall It Ends in Heaven (Tin House Books, 2022), have appeared recently in Poetry, Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, and Ploughshares. Jayme holds a PhD from Florida State University, an MFA from the University of Oregon, and an MBA from the University of Iowa. An assistant professor of English at Meredith College, Jayme lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.
For more, visit this author’s website.
Alycia Pirmohamed
Alycia Pirmohamed is the author of Another Way to Split Water, forthcoming with YesYes Books and Polygon Books in 2022. Her chapbooks include Hinge (ignitionpress), Faces that Fled the Wind (BOAAT Press), and the collaborative essay Second Memory, co-authored by Pratyusha (Guillemot Press and Baseline Press). Alycia currently teaches on the MSt Creative Writing at the University of Cambridge, and she previously studied creative writing at the University of Oregon and the University of Edinburgh. Her awards include the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, the CBC Poetry Prize, a Pushcart Prize, the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award, and others.
For more, visit this author’s website.
Wednesday • February 22, 2023
Fiction
Thomas Beller
Thomas Beller is the author of Seduction Theory: Stories, The Sleep-Over Artist: A Novel, How To Be a Man: Scenes from a Protracted Boyhood, and J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist, which won the New York City Book Award for biography/memoir. His most recent book is Lost In The Game: A Book About Basketball. His work has been reprinted in Best American Short Stories, The Art of the Essay, and numerous other anthologies. From 1990 to 2010, he edited Open City Magazine and Books, and since 2000 has published the literary website for nonfiction set in New York City, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood. A longtime contributor to The New Yorker magazine, he is an associate professor and director of creative writing at Tulane University.
For more, visit this author’s website.
SPRING 2023
Thursday • April 13, 2023
7:00 PM, Knight Library Browsing Room
Poetry
Kate Daniels
Kate Daniels is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently: In the Months of My Son’s Recovery (2019), Three Syllables Describing Addiction, and A Walk in Victoria’s Secret. Her recent prose work, Slow Fuse of the Possible: On Poetry and Psychoanalysis (2022), is an inter-genre memoir that explores connections between psychoanalysis and poetry, focusing on the writing process.
Daniels’ honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry; a Bunting Fellowship at Harvard University; the Agnes Lynch Starrett Award from the University of Pittsburgh; artist residencies at the Lannan Foundation in Marfa, Texas, and Yaddo; and election to the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Her poems appear in more than seventy-five anthologies, including numerous editions of Best American Poetry.
Daniels taught for many years at Vanderbilt University where she cofounded the MFA program in creative writing. She recently retired as the Edwin Mims Professor emerita of English. She resides in Nashville, Tennessee, and teaches writing at the Washington-Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis.
For more, visit this author’s website.
Thursday • April 27, 2023
7:00 PM, Knight Library Browsing Room
Fiction
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is the author of the bestselling short story collection Friday Black. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including Guernica, Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing, Printer’s Row, Gravel, and The Breakwater Review, where he was selected by ZZ Packer as the winner of the 2nd Annual Breakwater Review Fiction Contest. He is from Spring Valley, New York. He graduated from SUNY Albany and went on to receive his MFA from Syracuse University.
For more, visit this author’s agent: Blue Flower Arts
While it always our goal to host these events in person, the actual delivery method is subject to the expected conditions at the time of the event.
If converted, Zoom registration information will be posted as soon as possible.
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