Visiting Writers Series

The English & Philosophy Department brings a renowned poet, fiction writer or essayist to campus each semester, to meet with students and to offer a public reading of their work.

Fall 2024 

Image of Visiting Writer Forrest GenderPulitzer Prize-winning poet Forrest Gander will be on campus working with students and offering a public poetry reading on November 12 at 7 pm in the CSI Atrium. This event is free and open to the public.

Forrest's books, often concerned with ecology and intimacy, include Mojave Ghost (New Directions, 2024), Twice Alive (New Directions, 2021), Be With (New Directions, 2018), which won the Pulitzer Prize, and the desert novel The Trace (New Directions, 2015), among others. Gander’s many translations include Alice Iris Red Horse: Selected Poems of Yoshimasu Gozo (New Directions, 2016) and Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). Gander has often collaborated with artists such as Ann Hamilton, Sally Mann, Graciela Iturbide, and Eiko & Koma.  A former Professor at Harvard and Brown, he lives in northern California.

 

Previous Visiting Writers

Susan Stinson

 

 Stephanie Burt

Stephanie Stinson (2024)

Stephanie Burt (2023)
     
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Jeffrey Yang (2023)

Mary-Kim Arnold (2022)

Joanna Howard (2022)
     
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Julie Carr (2021)

Caryl Pagel (2021)

Khadijah Queen (2020)
     
Charvisa Hilary Joanna

Chavisa Woods (2020)

Hilary Plum (2019)

Joanna Ruocco (2019)
     
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Steven Dunn (2018)

Ocean Vuong (2018)

Brian Teare (2017)
     
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Kazim Ali (2017)

Mary Ruefle (2016)

Jessica Fisher (2015)
     
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Reginald Dwayne Betts (2015)

Katherine Hill (2015)

John Murillo (2015)
     
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Ewa Chrusciel (2014)

Catherine Lacey (2014)