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2008-2009 Visiting Writers Series All readings are held at 7 PM at the Stedman Gallery, Fine Arts Building, and are followed by Q&A sessions and receptions with the authors. All are free and open to the public. September 24 Binnie Kirshenbaum is the author
of two short story collections and five novels, including History
on a Personal Note, Hester Among the Ruins, An Almost Perfect Moment.
She is the chair of the MFA program at the Columbia University Graduate
School of the Arts. October 22
Patrick Rosal is the author of two
full-length poetry collections, Uprock Headspin Scramble
and Dive , which won the Members' Choice Award from the
Asian American Writers' Workshop, and most recently My American
Kundiman, which won the Association of Asian American Studies
2006 Book Award in Poetry as well as the 2007 Global Filipino Literary
Award. His chapbook, Uncommon Denominators, won the Palanquin Poetry
Series Award from the University of South Carolina, Aiken. His work
has been honored by the annual Allen Ginsberg Awards, the James
Hearst Poetry Prize, the Arts and Letters Prize, Best of the Net
among others. Rolf Potts
has reported from more than fifty countries for National Geographic
Traveler, National Geographic Adventure, Conde Nast Traveler, Slate.com,
the New York Times Magazine, Outside, Islands, The Believer, The
Guardian (U.K.), and National Public Radio. A veteran
travel columnist for the likes of Salon.com and the Travel Channel's
World Hum, Potts is perhaps best known for promoting the ethic of
independent travel, and his book on the subject, Vagabonding:
An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel, has
been through eight printings and translated into several foreign
languages. His writing for National Geographic Traveler,
Slate.com, Lonely Planet, and Outside garnered him Lowell
Thomas Awards in 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007. November 19 Gregory Djanikian was born of Armenian parentage in 1949 in Alexandria, Egypt, and came to the United States when he was 8 years old. He has published five collections of poetry with Carnegie Mellon University Press, The Man in the Middle, Falling Deeply into America, About Distance, Years Later, and most recently, So I Will Till the Ground¸ poems dealing with the Armenian genocide of 1915, the author’s boyhood in Alexandria, and his eventual immigration to the United States with his family. His poems have appeared in numerous publications including The American Poetry Review, The American Scholar, Boulevard, The Georgia Review, Iowa Review, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and in over 30 anthologies and textbooks. He directs the creative writing program at the University of Pennsylvania. T Cooper is the author of the novels
Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes, and Some
of the Parts as well as co-editor of an anthology of original
stories entitled A Fictional History of the United States With
Huge Chunks Missing. T was recently awarded residencies to
The Millay Colony and Ledig House International, has twice been
a fellow of The MacDowell Colony, and was awarded a NewNowNext Award
in 2008. In 2004 T was a finalist for the Koret Young Writer on
Jewish Themes Award as well as writer-in-residence at The Bronx
Academy of Letters. T's work has appeared in The New Yorker,
The New York Times, The Believer, and Out, among many
others. December 10 Percival Everett is the author of fifteen novels, three collections of short fiction, and one volume of poetry. Among his novels are Wounded, Glyph, Erasure, American Desert, For Her Dark Skin, Zulus, The Weather and The Women Treat Me Fair, Cutting Lisa, Walk Me to the Distance, Suder, The One That Got Away, Watershed, God's Country, his short story collection is Big Picture, and his poetry book is re:f (gesture). He is the recipient of the Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the PEN/Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature (for his 1996 story collection Big Picture) and a New American Writing Award (for his 1990 novel Zulus). His stories have been included in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and Best American Short Stories. He has served as a judge for, among others, the 1997 National Book Award for fiction and the PEN/ Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1991. He teaches fiction writing, American Studies and critical theory and he has taught at Bennington College, The University of Wyoming and the University of California at Riverside. He is currently a professor at the University of Southern California. January 28 Linh Dinh is the author of two collections of stories, Fake House and Blood and Soap and four books of poems: All Around What Empties Out, American Tatts, Borderless Bodies and Jam Alerts. His novel, Love Like Hate, is scheduled to be released in 2009. His work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2000, Best American Poetry 2004, Best American Poetry 2007 and Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present, among other places.
Dave King's debut novel, The Ha-Ha,
was named one of the best books of 2005 by The Christian Science
Monitor and The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and was
among eighteen books inluded on The Washington Post list
of the season's best novels. The Ha-Ha was a finalist for
Book-of-the-Month Club's "Best Literary Fiction" award and the Quills
Foundation "Best Debut Author" award and won King a 2006-07 Rome
Prize Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
King's poetry has been published in The Paris Review, among
other venues, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. February 18 Reginald Gibbons is a poet, fiction
writer, translator, literary critic, artist, and Professor of English
and Classics at Northwestern University. In 2008 he published a
new book of poems, Creatures of a Day and a new book of
translations, Selected Poems of Sophocles; he is currently
a columnist for American Poetry Review. From 1981 to 1997,
he served as the editor of TriQuarterly magazine, an international
journal of new writing, art and cultural inquiry published at Northwestern.
He also co-founded and edited TriQuarterly Books, an imprint for
contemporary writing at Northwestern University Press. Gibbons has
published numerous essays and reviews, held Guggenheim and NEA fellowships
in poetry, and has won the Anisfield Wolf Book Award, the Carl Sandburg
Prize, the Folger Shakespeare Library's 2004 O. B. Hardison Jr.
Poetry Prize, and other honors, among them the inclusion of his
work in Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize
anthologies. Idra Novey's book of poetry, The Next Country, will be published by Alice James Books in November, 2008. Her chapbook of poems was selected by Carolyn Forche for a 2005 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Her poems have also appeared in Slate, Paris Review, Ploughshares, and Agni. She received a PEN Translation Fund Award for her translation of The Clean Shirt of It, by Brazilian poet Paulo Henriques Britto (BOA Editions, 2007, Lannan Translation Series). She currently teaches at Columbia University and in the Bard College Prison Initiative. March 11 Joshua Ferris's first novel, Then
We Came to the End, was named one of the five best books of
2007 by The New York Times; it has sold in 20 countries
and was shortlisted for the National Book Award and longlisted for
the Guardian First Book Award. His short fiction has appeared or
is forthcoming in Granta, Tin House, New Stories From the South,
Best New American Voices, The Guardian, The Iowa Review and
Prairie Schooner. Joshua Ferris is the winner of the Barnes
and Noble Discover New Writers Award. April 15 Daniel Mendelsohn's articles, essays, reviews and translations have appeared frequently in numerous national publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Esquire, and The Paris Review. From 2000 until 2002, he was the weekly book critic for New York magazine, for which he won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Excellence in Reviewing in 2001. Since 2000, he has been a frequent contributor of book, film, and theater reviews to The New York Review of Books; for the latter, he was awarded the 2002 George Jean Nathan Prize for Drama Criticism. Mr. Mendelsohn is the author of three books: a memoir of family history and sexual identity, The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity; a scholarly study of Greek tragedy, Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays; and the award-winning international bestseller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, about his world-wide search for information about the fates of six relatives who perished in the Holocaust. Note: This reading in the Multipurpose Room, Campus Center.
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