Creative Writing Events
Fall 2023 |
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New Faculty Reading Claire Luchette is the author of the novel Agatha of Little Neon. Their work has appeared in Best American Short Stories, The New York Times, Ploughshares, and VQR. Amir Ahmadi Arian has published short stories and essays in the New York Times, New York Review of Books, Paris Review, London Review of Books, and elsewhere. His first novel in English, Then The Fish Swallowed Him, was published by HarperCollins in 2020. Professor of English Alexi Zentner will moderate. |
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Distinguished Writers Series Victoria Chang’s forthcoming book of poems, With My Back to the World, will be published in 2024 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the U.S. and Corsair Books
in the U.K. Her most recent book of poetry, The Trees Witness Everything, was published by Copper Canyon Press and Corsair Books in the U.K. in 2022, and
was named one of the Best Books of 2022 by the New Yorker and the Guardian, and her nonfiction book, Dear Memory (Milkweed Editions), was published in 2021 and was named a favorite nonfiction book
of 2021 by Electric Literature and Kirkus. |
Spring 2024 |
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Distinguished Writers Series Angie Cruz is a novelist and editor whose most recent novel is How Not To Drown in A Glass of Water (2022). It was shortlisted by The Aspen Words Literary Prize, winner of the Gold Medal, Latino Book Award/The Isabel Allende Most Inspirational Book Award, longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize and chosen for The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2022 and The Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Fiction. Her novel Dominicana was the inaugural book pick for GMA book club and shortlisted for The Women’s Prize, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction, a RUSA Notable book and the winner of the ALA/YALSA Alex Award in fiction. It was also named most anticipated/ best book in 2019 by Time, Newsweek, People, Oprah Magazine, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Esquire. Cruz is also the author of two other novels, Soledad and Let It Rain Coffee. |
Contact
Creative Writing press and event inquiries can be directed to María Álvarez, Lecturer and Associate Director of Creative Writing: malvarez@binghamton.edu
