Visiting Writers Series

Visiting Writers 2010–11

Brian Henry – Poetry
September 23, 2010

Brian Henry has published six books of poetry, including Graft Quarantine (winner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award), The Stripping Point and Wings Without Birds. His work has been translated into Croatian, Polish, Russian, Serbian and Slovenian, and he has co-edited Verse magazine since 1995.  

7:30 p.m.
Isaacs Auditorium
The reading is free and open to the public

 

 

Steve Yarbrough – Fiction
October 27, 2010

Steve Yarbrough’s latest book is the novel Safe From the Neighbors (Knopf, 2010). He has published four other novels, including The Oxygen Man and The End of California, as well as two collections of short stories, Veneer and Mississippi History.

7:30 p.m.
Isaacs Auditorium
The reading is free and open to the public.

 

 

Robert Cording – Poetry
November 15, 2010

Robert Cording is the author of six collections of poetry, including Against Consolation, Common Life and the just-released Walking With Ruskin (CavanKerry). His first book, Life-List, won the inaugural Ohio State University Press/The Journal Prize.

7:30 p.m.
Isaacs Auditorium
The reading is free and open to the public.

 

 

Fred D'Aguiar – Fiction/Nonfiction/Poetry
February 21, 2011

Novelist, poet, essayist and playwright Fred D’Aguiar grew up in Guyana and England. His most recent book, Continental Shelf, is a collection of essays. His first novel, The Longest Memory, won the David Higham Prize, and his collection of poems, Bill of Rights, was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.

4:30 p.m.
Degenstein Center Theater
The reading is free and open to the public.

 

 

Lydia Davis – Nonfiction/Fiction
March 31, 2011

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis was published in 2009 (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux). She is a prolific author of fiction, including the novel The End of the Story and the short story collections Break It Down and Varieties of Disturbance.

7:30 p.m.
Isaacs Auditorium
The reading is free and open to the public.

 

 

Nick Ripatrazone – Fiction
April 18, 2011

Nick Ripatrazone is this year’s guest in the Writers Institute Visiting Alumni Series. A 2003 Susquehanna graduate, he has published stories in such venues as Esquire, The Kenyon Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, McSweeny’s, St. Ann’s Review and the anthology The Long Meanwhile(Hourglass Books, 2007).

7:30 p.m.
Isaacs Auditorium
The reading is free and open to the public.

 

Past Visiting Writers have included:

• Lee K. Abbott
• Rick Bass
• Richard Bausch 
• Madison Smartt Bell
• Eavan Boland
• Robert Boswell 
• David Bradley
• Fleda Brown
• Frederick Busch 
• Rafael Campo
• Lorene Cary
• Dan Chaon
• Judith Ortiz Cofer
• Billy Collins
• Bernard Cooper
• Robert Creeley
• Charles D’Ambrosio
• Andre Dubus III
• Stephen Dunn
• Lynn Emanuel
• Carolyn Forché
• Tom Franklin
• Cristina Garcia
• Dagoberto Gilb
• Louise Glück
• Ron Hansen
• Joy Harjo
• James Harms
• Colin Harrison
• Larry Heinemann
• Edward Hirsch
• Tony Hoagland
• Ha Jin
• Rodney Jones
• Mary Karr
• Jill McCorkle
• James Alan McPherson
• Sue Miller
• Antonya Nelson
• Sharon Olds
• Tom Perrotta
• Jayne Anne Phillips
• Andrew Porter
• Claudia Rankine 
• Richard Rodriguez
• Esmeralda Santiago
• Bob Shacochis
• Enid Shomer
• Rachel Simon
• Art Spiegelman
• Gerald Stern
• Jay Varner ’03 
• John Vernon
• G.C. Waldrep
• Nancy Willard
• Tobias Wolff