10/30 - Time: 8 p.m.

Visiting Writers Series (Postponed)

This event has been postponed. 

 

Novelist Elise Blackwell and poet and memoirist Randall Horton will read their work as part of the Creative Writing Program's Visiting Writers Series.

Horton (right) is the recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, the Bea Gonzalez Poetry Award and most recently a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Literature. Randall is a Cave Canem Fellow, a member of the Affrilachian Poets and a member of The Symphony: The House that Etheridge Built. He is assistant professor of English at the University of New Haven. An excerpt from his memoir titled Roxbury is published by Kattywompus Press. Triquarterly/Northwestern University Press will publish his latest poetry collection, Pitch Dark Anarchy, in Spring 2013. 

Blackwell (below) is the author of Hunger, The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish, Grub, and An Unfinished Score. Her work has been translated into several languages, and her books have been named to numerous "best of the year" lists, including the Los Angeles Times, Sydney Morning Herald, and Kirkus. Her short stories and cultural criticism have appeared in Witness, Topic, Seed, Global City Review, Quick Fiction, and elsewhere.

She is from southern Louisiana, though she has lived in many other places. She studied creative writing at Louisiana State and received an M.F.A. from the University of California-Irvine. Before publishing her first novel in 2003, she worked as a journalist and translator. Currently on the faculty of the University of South Carolina, she lives in Columbia with her husband, the writer David Bajo, and their daughter, Esme.

The reading is free and open to the public.

 

Admission: free

Location: English Common Room (Engleman D253)

Contact Information: Tim Parrish, (203) 392-6745