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The English Reading Series - Winter 2018 Fridays at Noon in the HBLL Auditorium Natasha Sajé January 19 is the author of three books of poems, Red Under the Skin (Pittsburgh, 1994), Bend (Tupelo Press, 2004), and Vivarium (Tupelo, 2014); a book of poetry criticism, Windows and Doors: A Poet Reads Literary Theory, (University of Michigan Press, 2014); and many other essays. Her work has been honored with the Robert Winner and Alice Fay di Castagnola Awards, a Fulbright fellowship, the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize, and the Utah Book Award. Sajé is a professor of English at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, and a member of poetry faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts M.F.A. in Writing Program. (Photo Credit: David Baddley) Adam Giannelli January 26 is the author of Tremulous Hinge (University of Iowa Press, 2017), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, and the translator of a selection of prose poems by Marosa di Giorgio, Diadem (BOA Editions, 2012). His poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Yale Review, FIELD, and elsewhere. He lives in Salt Lake City, where he is a doctoral candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Utah. (Photo Credit: James Kendi) George Handley February 9 Colin Rafferty February 16 Brandon Sanderson February 23 Ally Condie March 2 is the author of the Matched Trilogy, a #1 New York Times and international bestseller. Matched was chosen as one of YALSA’s 2011 Teens’ Top Ten and named as one of Publisher’s Weekly’s Best Children’s Books of 2010. The series is available in 30+ languages. Ally is also the author of the young adult novel Atlantia, and of the middle grade novel Summerlost, which was an Edgar Award Finalist for Best Juvenile Mystery of 2016. Her newest book, The Darkdeep, releases in October 2018. She is the founder of the non-profit WriteOut Foundation, which runs writeoutcamp.org–a writing camp for teens that allows students to work with published authors, experience the outdoors, and enjoy other activities. Ally lives with her husband and four children outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. She loves reading, writing, running, and listening to her husband play guitar. (Photo Credit: Erin Summerill) Lance Larsen March 23 Lance Larsen, former poet laureate of Utah, is the author of five poetry collections, most recently What the Body Knows (Tampa 2018). His poetry and prose appear widely, in such venues as Poetry, Brevity, LIT, Southern Review, APR, Georgia Review, Best American Poetry 2009, and Brief Encounters (edited by Norton). He has received a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Ragdale, Sewanee, and the National Endowment for the Arts. His essays have made the Notables list in Best American Essays five times. He teaches in BYU’s English Department. No Reading March 9 “Spring Break” March 16 Sarah Viren March 30 is a writer, translator, and former newspaper reporter. Her essay collection, Mine, won the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize, judged by Andre Dubus III, and will be published in March 2018. Her translation of the novella Cordoba Skies by the Argentine author Federico Falco was published in 2016 by Ploughshares Solos. She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa’s Creative Nonfiction Writing program and a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Texas Tech University. A former Fulbright student grantee to Colombia, Sarah has published essays in Guernica, the Iowa Review, the Oxford American, Texas Monthly and other magazines. She is an assistant professor at Arizona State University. Darrell Spencer April 6 has published one novel, One Mile Past Dangerous Curve, and four short story collections, notably Bring Your Legs With You, which won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize; and Caution: Men in Trees, which won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. He received his Ph. D. in fiction writing at the University of Utah and taught creative writing at BYU, Antioch University, and Ohio University. He currently lives in Saint George, Utah, with his wife, Kate Clark-Spencer who is an artist and writer. Paxman Student Reading April 13 Three student readers will share their own creative work--one in fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. Students may be graduate or undergraduate. Sonya Huber February 2 Sonya Huber’s new essay collection is called Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System. Her other books include Opa Nobody, Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir, The Evolution of Hillary Rodham Clinton and a textbook, The Backwards Research Guide for Writers. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, Fourth Genre, and other journals. She received the 2012 Creative Nonfiction Award from Terrain, and her essays were named notable in Best American Essays 2014, 2015, and 2017. She teaches at Fairfield University and directs Fairfield’s Low-Residency MFA Program. A Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities at Brigham Young University, George B. Handley’s creative writing, literary criticism, and civic engagement focus on the intersection between religion, literature, and the environment. A literary scholar and ecocritic whose work is characterized by its comparative reach across the cultures and landscapes of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States, he is also known for creative writing that blends nature writing, theology, and family history. His creative writing includes the environmental memoir, Home Waters, a collection of essays entitled Learning to Like Life, and his forthcoming novel, American Fork. A native Midwesterner, Colin Rafferty studied nonfiction writing at Kansas State University, Iowa State University, and the University of Alabama. He is the author of Hallow This Ground, a book of creative nonfiction about monuments and memorials, which was published in 2016 by Break Away Books/Indiana University Press. He teaches nonfiction writing at the University of Mary Washington, where he is an associate professor of English, and lives in Richmond, Virginia, with his wife and their dog. His current project is collection of forty- six essays about the presidents of the United States, and he is beginning work on a book about the Vietnam War. (Photo Credit: Elizabeth Wade) has published numerous novels with Tor—Elantris, the Mistborn books, Warbreaker, The Stormlight Archive, and the young adult fantasy The Rithmatist. Five books have been published in the middle-grade Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians series. The Reckoners trilogy, which concluded with Calamity in 2016, was released by Delacorte. He was chosen to complete Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series; the final book, A Memory of Light, was released in 2013. Currently living in Utah with his wife and children, Brandon teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University. Go to ers.byu.edu to find out more about BYU’s English Reading Series.
Transcript of The English Reading Series - Winter 2018media.ers.byu.edu/upcoming.pdfhas published numerous novels...
The English Reading Series - Winter 2018
Fridays at Noon in the HBLL Auditorium
Natasha Sajé January 19 is the author of three books of poems, Red Under the Skin (Pittsburgh, 1994), Bend (Tupelo Press, 2004), and Vivarium (Tupelo, 2014); a book of poetry criticism, Windows and Doors: A Poet Reads Literary Theory, (University of Michigan Press, 2014); and many other essays. Her work has been honored with the Robert Winner and Alice Fay di Castagnola Awards, a Fulbright fellowship, the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize, and the Utah Book Award. Sajé is a professor of English at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, and a member of poetry faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts M.F.A. in Writing Program. (Photo Credit: David Baddley)
Adam Giannelli January 26is the author of Tremulous Hinge (University of Iowa Press, 2017), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, and the translator of a selection of prose poems by Marosa di Giorgio, Diadem (BOA Editions, 2012). His poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Yale Review, FIELD, and elsewhere. He lives in Salt Lake City, where he is a doctoral candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Utah.(Photo Credit: James Kendi)
George Handley February 9
Colin Rafferty February 16
Brandon Sanderson February 23
Ally Condie March 2is the author of the Matched Trilogy, a #1 New York Times and international bestseller. Matched was chosen as one of YALSA’s 2011 Teens’ Top Ten and named as one of Publisher’s Weekly’s Best Children’s Books of 2010. The series is available in 30+ languages. Ally is also the author of the young adult novel Atlantia, and of the middle grade novel Summerlost, which was an Edgar Award Finalist for Best Juvenile Mystery of 2016. Her newest book, The Darkdeep, releases in October 2018. She is the founder of the non-profit WriteOut Foundation, which runs writeoutcamp.org–a writing camp for teens that allows students to work with published authors, experience the outdoors, and enjoy other activities. Ally lives with her husband and four children outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. She loves reading, writing, running, and listening to her husband play guitar. (Photo Credit: Erin Summerill)
Lance Larsen March 23Lance Larsen, former poet laureate of Utah, is the author of five poetry collections, most recently What the Body Knows (Tampa 2018). His poetry and prose appear widely, in such venues as Poetry, Brevity, LIT, Southern Review, APR, Georgia Review, Best American Poetry 2009, and Brief Encounters (edited by Norton). He has received a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Ragdale, Sewanee, and the National Endowment for the Arts. His essays have made the Notables list in Best American Essays five times. He teaches in BYU’s English Department.
No Reading March 9
“Spring Break” March 16
Sarah Viren March 30is a writer, translator, and former newspaper reporter. Her essay collection, Mine, won the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize, judged by Andre Dubus III, and will be published in March 2018. Her translation of the novella Cordoba Skies by the Argentine author Federico Falco was published in 2016 by Ploughshares Solos. She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa’s Creative Nonfiction Writing program and a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Texas Tech University. A former Fulbright student grantee to Colombia, Sarah has published essays in Guernica, the Iowa Review, the Oxford American, Texas Monthly and other magazines. She is an assistant professor at Arizona State University.
Darrell Spencer April 6has published one novel, One Mile Past Dangerous Curve, and four short story collections, notably Bring Your Legs With You, which won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize; and Caution: Men in Trees, which won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. He received his Ph. D. in fiction writing at the University of Utah and taught creative writing at BYU, Antioch University, and Ohio University. He currently lives in Saint George, Utah, with his wife, Kate Clark-Spencer who is an artist and writer.
Paxman Student Reading April 13Three student readers will share their own creative work--one in fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. Students may be graduate or undergraduate.
Sonya Huber February 2Sonya Huber’s new essay collection is called Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System. Her other books include Opa Nobody, Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir, The Evolution of Hillary Rodham Clinton and a textbook, The Backwards Research Guide for Writers. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, Fourth Genre, and other journals. She received the 2012 Creative Nonfiction Award from Terrain, and her essays were named notable in Best American Essays 2014, 2015, and 2017. She teaches at Fairfield University and directs Fairfield’s Low-Residency MFA Program.
A Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities at Brigham Young University, George B. Handley’s creative writing, literary criticism, and civic engagement focus on the intersection between religion, literature, and the environment. A literary scholar and ecocritic whose work is characterized by its comparative reach across the cultures and landscapes of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States, he is also known for creative writing that blends nature writing, theology, and family history. His creative writing includes the environmental memoir, Home Waters, a collection of essays entitled Learning to Like Life, and his forthcoming novel, American Fork.
A native Midwesterner, Colin Rafferty studied nonfiction writing at Kansas State University, Iowa State University, and the University of Alabama. He is the author of Hallow This Ground, a book of creative nonfiction about monuments and memorials, which was published in 2016 by Break Away Books/Indiana University Press. He teaches nonfiction writing at the University of Mary Washington, where he is an associate professor of English, and lives in Richmond, Virginia, with his wife and their dog. His current project is collection of forty-six essays about the presidents of the United States, and he is beginning work on a book about the Vietnam War. (Photo Credit: Elizabeth Wade)
has published numerous novels with Tor—Elantris, the Mistborn books, Warbreaker, The Stormlight Archive, and the young adult fantasy The Rithmatist. Five books have been published in the middle-grade Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians series. The Reckoners trilogy, which concluded with Calamity in 2016, was released by Delacorte. He was chosen to complete Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series; the final book, A Memory of Light, was released in 2013. Currently living in Utah with his wife and children, Brandon teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University.
Go to ers.byu.edu to find out more about BYU’s English Reading Series.
