Upcoming Residency Highlights: Summer 2009
Our twice-yearly MFA residencies feature readings and seminars by some of the most unique and exciting writers, editors and publishing professionals of our time.
Following are some highlights of the upcoming Summer 2009 Residency, July 10-18, 2009.*
| Sat., July 11 7:30 PM John Egerton Reading
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John Egerton has written or edited eleven non-fiction books and contributed over 200 articles to periodicals. A participant in and writer for many projects or conferences dealing with desegregation and civil rights, he was a staff writer for Southern Education Report (1965-1969) and for Race Relations Reporter (1969-1971). He went on to a career as a contributing editor for Saturday Review of Education (1972-1973), Race Relations Reporter (1973-1974), and Southern Voices (1974-1975), while continuing to write for Atlanta's Southern Regional Council. Born in Atlanta, Egerton grew up in Cadiz, Kentucky. (Photo: Angie Mosier) |
| Sun., July 12 7:30 PM Ed McClanahan Reading |
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Ed McClanahan is a native of Brooksville, Kentucky, and a graduate of Miami (Ohio) University (AB 1955) and the University of Kentucky (MA 1958). His books include The Natural Man (a novel), Famous People I Have Known (a serio-comic autobiography), A Congress of Wonders (three novellas), and My Vita, If You Will (a miscellany of previously uncollected fiction, non-fiction, reviews, and commentary). He has taught English and creative writing at Oregon State University, Stanford University, the University of Montana, the University of Kentucky, and Northern Kentucky University. (Photo: "Captain Kentucky, a.k.a. Ed McClanahan, 1972" Copyright © Guy Mendes, Courtesy of Gnomon Press.) |
| Mon., July 13 7:30 PM MFA Faculty Reading Tommy Hays • Julia Watts
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Tommy Hays is the author of the novels The Pleasure Was Mine, Sam'�s Crossing and In the Family Way. A winner of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award, Hays is executive director of the Great Smokies Writing Program and a lecturer in the Master of Liberal Arts Program at UNC-Asheville. |
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Julia Watts is the author of nine novels, including The Kind of Girl I Am and Kindred Spirits. Watts has received grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women, and her essays and fiction have appeared in The American Voice, Brain/Child, The Journal of Kentucky Studies, and Now and Then. She teaches at South College in Knoxville. |
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| Tue., July 14 7:30 PM Ilya Kaminsky Reading |
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Ilya Kaminsky is the author of Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004) which won the Whiting Writer's Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Metcalf Award, the Dorset Prize, the Ruth Lilly Fellowship given annually by Poetry magazine. Odessa was also named Best Poetry Book of the Year 2004 by ForeWord Magazine. In the late 1990s, he co-founded Poets For Peace, an organization which sponsors poetry readings in the United States and abroad with a goal of supporting such relief organizations as Doctors Without Borders and Survivors International. He was born in Odessa, former Soviet Union in 1977, and arrived to the United States in 1993, when his family was granted asylum by the American government. |
| Wed., July 15 1-2:30 PM Faculty Hall 208 Sarah Gorham Presentation and Discussion: "Literary Contests: Behind the Scenes" |
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Sarah Gorham is the author of Bad Daughter (Four Way Books 2011), The Cure (Four Way Books 2003), The Tension Zone (Four Way Books 1996, second edition 1998), and Don't Go Back to Sleep (Galileo Press 1989). Recent poems and essays have appeared in Iowa Review, Agni, Quarterly West, American Poetry Review, Five Points, The Gettysburg Review, and The Southern Review, among other places. Gorham earned her MFA from the University of Iowa and her B.A. from Antioch College. She is editor-in-chief of Sarabande Books. |
| Wed., July 15 7:30 PM MFA New Faculty Reading Jeffrey Skinner • Nickole Brown |
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Jeffrey Skinner is the award-winning author of five books of poetry, including Salt Water Amnesia, Late Stars, A Guide to Forgetting, The Company of Heaven, and Gender Studies. He teaches at the University of Louisville and serves as board president and editorial consultant for Sarabande Books, which he founded with his wife, Sarah Gorham.
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Nickole Brown is the author of Sister, a novel-in-poems published by Red Hen Press in 2007. Her work has been featured in The Writer's Chronicle, Poets & Writers, 32 Poems, and many other national publications. She teaches at the University of Louisville and Bellarmine University and has worked for Sarabande Books since 1999. |
