Writers’ Workshop graduate Kiley Reid will read from and talk about her new novel, Such a Fun Age. This debut novel dives head first into matters of race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both. Generating extraordinary pre-publication excitement, film and TV rights have already been acquired, and the book has received praise from writers such as Chloe Benjamin and Paul Harding. 

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Distinguished Visiting Professor in Poetry, Tracie Morris will give a lecture on the intersection of scholarship and creative work, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at 8pm on Tuesday, December 10.

Tracie Morris is the author of Chap-T-her Won, Intermission, Rhyme Scheme, handholding: 5 kinds, Hard Kore: Poemes/Per-form: Poems of Mythos and Place (French/English), Who Do with Words, and co-editor (with Charles Bernstein and series editors) of BAX 2016: Best American Experimental Writing. Her art...

A self-proclaimed “lingualisualist” rooted in the languages of sight and sound, Edwin Torres was born in the Bronx and is a longtime resident of New York City. He is a poet whose highly acclaimed performances and live shows combine vocal and physical improvisation and theater. He is the author of 12 collections of poetry, most recently Ameriscopia (2014) and his visual poetics have been exhibited at Exit Art, EFA Gallery in NYC, and a graphic retrospective “Poesís: The Visual Language of Edwin...

National Book Award Finalist Jamel Brinkley will read from A Lucky Man: Stories. "Each story is a trenchant exploration of race and class, vividly conveying the tension between social codes of masculinity and the vulnerable, volatile self."—The New Yorker

Jamel Brinkley's stories have appeared in A Public Space, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has been a Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellow.