Visiting poet Carl Phillips and Lesley faculty Kyoko Mori and Tracey Baptiste will all present their work during the reading series.
Lesley University’s winter evening reading series will bring acclaimed authors to campus from Jan. 3-10 at Marran Theater, 34 Mellen St., Cambridge. All readings are free and open to the public.
“These readings represent enriching evenings, a great way to engage literature — and a chance to hear from writers who are provocatively and positively shifting our broader culture,” says MFA in Creative Writing Director Danielle Legros Georges.
Four-time National Book Award finalist Carl Phillips will headline the series. Phillips is the author of 14 books of poetry, including two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes for “Wild Is the Wind” and “Double Shadow” as well as “The Tether,” winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and “Silverchest,” a finalist for the Griffin Prize.
Phillips’s other honors include the Lambda Literary Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Library of Congress and the Academy of American Poets.
The series will also include Creative Writing alumni, faculty and current students. “The Weight of Ink” author Rachel Kadish; nonfiction children’s book author Susan Goodman and Lisa Gruenberg, author of the 2019 memoir “My City of Dreams,” are among the line-up of writers who will read from their work.
Faculty and visiting writer books will be available for sale after each reading.
Friday, January 3 at 5 p.m.
Lisa Gruenberg, memoir
Hester Kaplan, fiction
Saturday, January 4 at 6 p.m.
Carl Phillips, poetry
Sunday, January 5 at 6 p.m.
Susan Goodman, children’s fiction
Sinan Ünel, playwrighting and scriptwriting
Monday, January 6 at 6 p.m.
Sharon Bryan, poetry
Rachel Kadish, fiction
Wednesday, January 8 at 6 p.m.
Tracey Baptiste, young adult fiction
Kyoko Mori, fiction and memoir
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Graduating student readings
Thursday, January 9 at 6 p.m.
Alex Cuff, Saraciea Fennell, Britton Miller, Andrew Wasif
Friday, January 10 at 6 p.m.
Anita Ballesteros, Kate Kallal, Cassandra Kolias, Emily Lee, Zara Raab, Lindsey Schuhmacher, Emma Rebholz
