Maggie Dietz
Thursday, November 3, 6:00 p.m.
Maggie Dietz's book of poems Perennial Fall won the 2007 Jane Kenyon Award for Outstanding Book of Poetry. For many years she directed the Favorite Poem Project, an undertaking of Robert Pinsky during his tenure as U.S. Poet Laureate. She co-edited three anthologies related to the project: Americans' Favorite Poems, Poems to Read, and An Invitation to Poetry. Her work has appeared widely in journals such as Poetry, Ploughshares, Agni, Literary Imagination, Harvard Review, and Salmagundi. Dietz teaches creative writing at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and is assistant poetry editor for Slate.
"[Her] lippy candor is invigorating in a wish-I'd-thought-of-that way..."- New York Times Book Review
Junot Díaz
Tuesday, November 8, 6:00p.m.
Junot Díaz is the author of Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize, The National Book Critics Circle Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, African Voices, Best American Short Stories, Pushcart Prize XXII, and The O. Henry Prize Stories 2009. He is currently the fiction editor at the Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"...one of contemporary fiction's most distinctive and irresistible new voices"- New York Times
David Gessner
Thursday, November 17, 6:00p.m.
David Gessner is the author of eight books, including Sick of Nature, The Prophet of Dry Hill, and Return of the Osprey, which the Boston Globe called a "classic of American Nature writing" and cited as one of the top ten nonfiction books of the year. His work has appeared in magazines and journals including the New York Times Magazine, Boston Globe, Outside, Georgia Review, Harvard Review, and Orion. Gessner is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where he founded the national literary journal Ecotone. His latest books, My Green Manifesto and The Tarball Chronicles, were published earlier this year.
"Raw and honest...there's a lilt in his jig that many will find invigorating."- Los Angeles Times
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