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October 6, 2009 | 7 p.m.
Conference Center | Boxwood Room
Waxter Environmental Forum
Scott Russell Sanders is the author of more than twenty books, including Staying Put, Writing from the Center, and Hunting for Hope. His most recent books are the memoir A Private History of Awe and A Conservationist Manifesto. He has received the Lannan Literary Award, the Associated Writing Programs Award in Creative Nonfiction, the Great Lakes Book Award, the Kenyon Review Literary Award, and the John Burroughs Essay Award, among other honors, and has received support for his writing from the Lilly Endowment, the Indiana Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Since 1971 he has been teaching at Indiana University, where he is a Distinguished Professor of English.
October 15, 2009 | 8 p.m.
Pannell Gallery
Taije Silverman is the authro of the poetry collection Houses Are Fields. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Shenandoah, Ploughshares, Five Points, Massachusetts Review, and other journals. The recipient of the 2005-2007 Emory University Creative Writing Fellowship, as well as residencies from the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, she lives and teaches in Philadelphia.
John Casteen is the author of the poetry collection Free Union. His poems have appeared recently in The Southern Review, Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, Shenandoah, and other magazines; his nonfiction has appeared in Slate.com, The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The Virginia Quarterly Review, where he serves on the editorial staff. He lives in Earlysville, Virginia, and teaches at Sweet Briar College.
November 5, 2009 | 8 p.m.
Pannell Gallery
Hannah Tinti is the author of the story collection Animal Crackers, which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the novel The Good Thief, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, recipient of the American Library Association's Alex Award, and winner of the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize. She grew up in Salem, Massachusetts, and is co-founder and editor-in-chief of One Story magazine. She recently received the 2009 PEN/Nora Magid award for her editorial work at One Story.
March 25, 2009 | 8 p.m.
Conference Center | Boxwood Room
D. A. Powell is the author of the poetry collections Tea, Lunch, Cocktails, and Chronic. Powell's honors have included fellowships from the Millay Colony, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the James Michener Foundation, as well as a Pushcart Prize, the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America, and an Academy of American Poets Prize. His recent poems appear in Kenyon Review, Poetry Northwest, New England Review, and A Public Space. A former Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Poetry at Harvard University, he now teaches at the University of San Francisco.
April 13, 2009 | 8 p.m.
Conference Center | Boxwood Room
Ander Monson is the author of a host of paraphernalia including a decoder wheel, several chapbooks and limited edition letterpress collaborations, a website [http://otherelectricities.com], and five books: Other Electricities (2005), Vacationland (2005), Neck Deep and Other Predicaments (2007), The Available World (2010), and Vanishing Point (2010). He lives and teaches in Tucson, Arizona, where he edits the magazine DIAGRAM and the New Michigan Press.