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Writers@Grinnell: Chris Martin
Photo by Alice Herman. Author Chris Martin continued the Writers @Grinnell series this week, sharing a few of his works at a poetry reading and leading a round table on Thursday. Martin has written...
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Writers@Grinnell: Kazim Ali
Photo by Sarah Ruiz Poet, essayist, fiction writer and translator, Kazim Ali led the newest session of the Writers@Grinnell series this past Thursday, Sept. 22. Kazim has published several volumes of...
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Writers@Grinnell: Hugo Hamilton
Photo contributed. Hugo Hamilton is a best-selling and award-winning author and a visiting professor in English this semester. His memoir “The Speckled People” has been critically acclaimed around the...
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Writers@Grinnell: Kirsten Valdez Quade
Photo by Kosuke Yo. Kirsten Valdez Quade is an award winning author. Her collection of short stories “Night at the Fiestas” has received national acclaim, including being recognized as a New York Times...
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Writers@Grinnell: Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Photo by Helena Gruensteidl The S&B’s Graham Dodd sat down with Gabrielle Calvocoressi to talk about poetry, process, and personhood. The S&B: Can you introduce yourself with your name and...
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By Louise Carhart carhartl17@grinnell.edu This coming Monday, Feb. 13, Pulitzer Prize- winning author and professor of creative writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Junot Diaz, will...
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TV Writer and Crime Novelist Nichelle Tramble Spellman talks style,...
Nichelle Tramble Spellman is an award winning crime novelist. She has published two novels, and has also developed films and television projects with HBO, F/X. Dreamworks and Warner Brothers. Spellman...
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Award winning author and musician James McBride visits campus
Photo by Helena Gruensteidl James McBride is an award winning author and musician. His memoir “The Color of Water” was a New York Times bestseller, and his latest book “The Good Lord Bird” won the...
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Writers@Grinnell: Benjamin Percy
Benjamin Percy is the author of four novels, two books of short stories, a book of essays and nonficiton work that has been published in GQ, Esquire, Time, Men’s Journal, the New York Times and the...
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Writers @ Grinnell: Roy Scranton
Roy Scranton answered questions at a roundtable in JRC 209 on Thursday afternoon, and read from “Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization” that evening.Photo by...
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Renowned author Yvonne Owuor teaches “Literary Tourism”
Clara Larson larsoncl@grinnell.edu Yvonne Owuor, a renowned author from Kenya and recipient of the Caine Prize for African Writing and Eve Magazine in Kenya’s “Woman of the Year” in 2004, has found...
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Poets Tarfia Faizullah and Jamaal May discuss the importance of metaphor in art
By Kelly Page pagekell@grinnell.edu On Thursday, Oct. 5, Writers@Grinnell hosted poets Jamaal May and Tarfia Faizullah. May, who grew up in Detroit, has written the poetry collections “Hum” and “The...
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National Book Award finalist Carmen Maria Machado discusses horror and...
After its release from Gray Wolf Press this year, Carmen Maria Machado’s debut short story collection won the prestigious title of finalist for the National Book Award. Currently an artist-in-residence...
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Writers @ Grinnell: Lynn Powell
Lynn Powell, a renowned poet, professor of creative writing at Oberlin College and recipient of the 2017 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry for her book “Season of Second Thought” led Writers @ Grinnell...
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Writers@Grinnell: Thisbe Nissen and Jay Baron Nicorvo
By Ahon Gooptu gooptuah@grinnell.edu Every semester, the Writers@Grinnell series brings authors to the prairie to share their personal stories and read from their most recent works. To kick-start the...
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Writers@Grinnell: Tinker Powell and Mark Montgomery
By Amanda Weber weberama@grinnell.edu Powell and Montgomery talked about their views on international adoption. Photo by Mai Vu Phuong. Tinker Powell and Mark Montgomery are economics professors at...
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Writers@Grinnell welcomes Ocean Vuong
by Mayo Sueta suetamay@grinnell.edu Ocean Vuong received a standing ovation after reading from his debut collection of poetry, “Night Sky with Exit Wounds,” on Thursday night at 8 p.m. photo by Helena...
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Writers@Grinnell: Douglas Trevor
By Mayo Sueta suetamay@grinnell.edu Last Friday, March 2, Writers@Grinnell welcomed author Douglas Trevor to campus to read from his newest book, “The Book of Wonders,” and answer questions about...
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Writers@Grinnell: Marlon James
Marlon James was this year’s distinguished author for Writers@Grinnell. His novel “A Brief History of Seven Killings” received the Man Booker Prize in 2015. The S&B’s Mayo Sueta sat down with him...
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Writers@Grinnell: Roxane Gay
By Emma Friedland friedlan@grinnell.edu Roxane Gay is undoubtedly one of the most prominent and influential writers working today. Her novels, short stories, essays, blogs and tweets provide critical...
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