September 9: Millicent Accardi (Sponsored by the Graduate English Society)
Millicent Accardi’s poetry has appeared in over 50 literary journals, including Sycamore Review, Tampa Review, Interim, New Letters, Madison Review, and Nimrod. Her work has also been featured in several anthologies, including: Boomer Girls: Poems by Women from the Baby Boom Generation, University of Iowa Press. Her writing awards include poetry grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The California Arts Council, the Barbara Deming Foundation, and residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Jentel, and Yaddo. (6:00pm, English 106).
October 7: Loren Graham
Loren Graham’s new book of poems is The Ring Scar, published this fall by Word Press. His first book, Mose, derived from his experience teaching inmates in the Texas Department of Corrections, was published by Wesleyan University Press. He is widely published in literary journals— Ploughshares, Poet Lore, Seattle Review, Antioch Review, and others; including special features in Boston Review and Alabama Literary Review. Graham has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commission on the Arts. He has taught at Hollins University and is now Associate Professor at Carroll College in Montana. (7:30pm, English 001).
October 21: Erin McGraw (Sponsored by Iron Horse Literary Review)
Erin McGraw’s newest novel, The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard, was published in August 2008, by Houghton-Mifflin. Before that she published The Good Life (stories), The Baby Tree (a novel), Lies of the Saints (stories, and a New York Times Notable Book for 1996), and Bodies at Sea (stories). Her short work has appeared in such magazines as The Atlantic Monthly, Good Housekeeping, The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, STORY, The Georgia Review, and many others. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she has received fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council and the corporations of MacDowell and Yaddo. (7:30pm, English 001).
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October 28: Matthew Roth
Matthew Roth’s first book of poems, Bird Silence, was published in 2009 by The Woodley Press. His poems have appeared in many nationally recognized journals, including Verse, Fence, Antioch Review, American Literary Review, 32 Poems, and others. He lives in Pennsylvania, where he is an Associate Professor of English at Messiah College. (7:30pm, English 001).
November 4: Christina García
Cristina García’s fifth novel, The Lady Matador’s Hotel, is published this Fall by Scribner. Previous novels include, Dreaming in Cuban, The Agüero Sisters, Monkey Hunting, A Handbook to Luck, García has edited two anthologies, Cubanísimo:The Vintage Book of Contemporary Cuban Literature and Bordering Fires: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and Chicano/a Literature. García’s work has been nominated for a National Book Award and she is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, and a National Endowment of the Arts fellowship. She is a newly appointed Professor of Creative Writing at Texas Tech. (7:30pm, English 001).
All readings are sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, unless otherwise noted.
