Visiting Writers Series

Visiting Writers 2009–10

Andrew Porter – Fiction
October 1, 2009

His debut short story collection, The Theory of Light and Matter (Georgia, 2008), won the Flannery O’Connor Prize. Knopf has agreed to publish the paperback edition as well as Porter’s first novel.   

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

 

 

Claudia Rankine – Poetry
October 22, 2009

Claudia Rankine is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Don’t Let Me Be Lonely (Graywolf, 2004). Her first collection, Nothing in Nature is Private, won the Cleveland State Poetry prize. She is co-editor of American Women Poets in the Twenty-First Century.

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

 

 

Fleda Brown – Poetry
November 9, 2009

Fleda Brown’s sixth collection, Reunion (Wisconsin, 2007), won the Felix Pollak Prize. Other widely praised collections, The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives (2004) and The Devil’s Child (1998), have been published by Carnegie-Mellon University Press.

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

 

 

Charles D’Ambrosio – Fiction
February 15, 2010

Frequently published in The New Yorker, Charles D’Ambrosio, and his collection of stories, The Point and The Dead Fish Museum, are widely acclaimed. The former is a New York Times Notable Book, and the latter a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2006, when he also won a Whiting Writer’s Award.  

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

 

 

Bernard Cooper – Nonfiction/Fiction
March 25, 2010

Winner of the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Award, Bernard Cooper has published the best-selling memoirs, The Bill From my Father, Maps to Anywhere and Truth Serum as well as the novel, A Year of Rhymes, and a collection of stories, Guess Again.

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

 

 

Jay Varner – Nonfiction
April 19, 2010

A Susquehanna creative writing graduate, Jay Varner ’03 has since been managing editor of the national magazine Ecotone and received a Master of Fine Arts in creative nonfiction from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. His memoir, Burn, will be published by Algonquin in 2010.

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
• Frederick Busch 
• Rafael Campo
• Lorene Cary
• Dan Chaon
• Judith Ortiz Cofer
• Billy Collins
• Bernard Cooper
• Robert Creeley
• 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
• Richard Rodriguez
• Esmeralda Santiago
• Bob Shacochis
• Enid Shomer
• Rachel Simon
• Art Spiegelman
• Gerald Stern
• John Vernon
• G.C. Waldrep
• Nancy Willard
• Tobias Wolff
• Steve Yarbrough