Visiting Writers -- Fall 2012

 

Eugene Gloria reading Thursday September 20th 7:30 PM Thompson Recital Hall

 

Eugene Gloria
Distinguished Faculty Poet
reading from his new book My Favorite Warlord, his third collection of work published by Penguin.

 

 

Antonya Nelson Craft Talk Thursday   September 27th 7:30 PM Watson Forum PCCM

Antonya Nelson (Mary Rogers Field Distinguished University Professorship for Creative Writing) is the author of four novels, most recently Bound (2010). Her short story collections include Nothing Right, Female Trouble, Some Fun and In the Land of Men among others. She was named by The New Yorker as one of the "twenty young fiction writers for the new millennium." She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, the Flannery O'Connor Award for the Short Story and her work has appeared in the anthologies Prize Stories, the O'Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories. She is the Cullen Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Houston.

 

 

Robert Boswell reading Thursday November 1st 7:30 PM Peeler Auditorium

Robert Boswell
Fiction Writer and author of eleven books, including The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards, a story collection with Graywolf Press, published in April 2009

THE OPRAH REVIEW: Robert Boswell's stories are packed with latent emotion, like explosives about to detonate. In The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards (Graywolf), characters move through life with trepidation, as relationships fracture and past collides with present. "Time is not a river," thinks one traumatized young man. "Time is a tree. Branches, roots, limbs, the leafing. Time defoliates. Time buds. Time cracks." An unnerving, fascinating collection.
--O Magazine & Oprah.com

MATTHEW DICKMAN reading Wednesday November 14, 2012 7:30 PM Thompson Recital Hall

Matthew Dickman was born in Portland, Oregon. His first book, All-American Poem, was the winner of the 2008 APR/Honickman First Book Prize selected by the poet Tony Hoagland. Dickman is the poetry editor of Tin House and has published in journals including The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and McSweeney's. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the Michener Center for Writers, The Vermont Studio Center and The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. 50 American Plays, a collaborative book of poem-plays written with his brother, the poet, Michael Dickman, comes out in May 2012 from Copper Canyon Press and Matthew Dickman's second poetry collection, Mayakovsky's Revolver, will be released by W.W. Norton & Co. in October 2012.  

 

 

Antonya Nelson reading Wednesday November 28th 7:30 PM Peeler Auditorium

Antonya Nelson (Mary Rogers Field Distinguished University Professorship for Creative Writing) is the author of four novels, most recently Bound (2010). Her short story collections include Nothing Right, Female Trouble, Some Fun and In the Land of Men among others. She was named by The New Yorker as one of the "twenty young fiction writers for the new millennium." She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, the Flannery O'Connor Award for the Short Story and her work has appeared in the anthologies Prize Stories, the O'Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories. She is the Cullen Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Houston.