Forrest Gander has published numerous books of poetry, including Eye against Eye, Torn Awake, and Science & Steepleflower, all from New Directions.  His work has earned him awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Whiting Foundation, and the Howard Foundation.

Monday, September 22, 7:30pm - Isaacs Auditorium in Seibert Hall

Tom Franklin is the author of the widely praised Poachers, a short story collection, and Hell at the Breech and Smonk, novels from Harper Collins.  He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his work is included in Best Mystery Stories of the Century.

Beth Ann Fennelly’s first collection of poems, Open House, won the 2001 Kenyon Review Prize.  Recent collections, Tender Hooks and Unmentionables, have been published to national acclaim.

Fennelly and her husband, Franklin, will both read at this evening event as part of their one-week Writers Institute residency.

Wednesday, October 1, 7:30pm - Isaacs Auditorium in Seibert Hall

G.C. Waldrep is the author of Goldbeater’s Skin, winner of the 2003 Colorado Prize for Poetry, and Disclamor.  Archicembalo, his third collection, won the 2008 Dorset Prize.  His work has received awards from the Poetry Society of America, the Campbell Corner Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Tuesday, January 27, 7:30pm - Stretansky Hall in Cunningham Center

Bob Shacochis’ first collection of stories, Easy in the Islands, won the National Book Award for First Fiction, and his second collection, The Next New World, was awarded the Prix de Rome.  His novel, Swimming in the Volcano, was a National Book Award finalist.

Monday, February 16, 4:30pm - Stretansky Hall in Cunningham Center

Sue Miller is the best selling author of many novels, including The Good Mother, Family Pictures, The World Below, and the recently released The Senator’s Wife.  Several of her novels as well as her collection of stories, Inventing the Abbots, have been made into major motion pictures.

Thursday, March 26, 7:30pm - Stretansky Hall in Cunningham Center

Catherine Pierce is a 2000 graduate of Susquehanna’s creative writing program.  Her first poetry collection, Famous Last Words, was selected by John Yau as the winner of the 2007 Saturnalia Books Poetry prize.  Her earlier chapbook, Animals of Habit, won the Wick Chapbook competition.

Monday, April 20 , 7:30pm - Isaacs Auditorium in Seibert Hall