Events

Join us for a faculty spotlight on Marie Howe, author of the recent New and Selected Poems for which she received a Pulitzer Prize, who will be in conversation with faculty member Victoria Redel.

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

Angie Kim is the New York Times bestselling author of Happiness Falls, a Good Morning America and B&N book club pick, Virginia Literary Award winner, and Oprah Daily’s #1 novel of 2023. Her debut, Miracle Creek, won the Edgar Award and was named one of Time’s 100 best mysteries and thrillers of all time. A Korean immigrant who moved to Baltimore in middle school, Kim attended Stanford University and Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Her novels have been translated to over 20 languages and are currently in development for film/TV adaptation. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Southern Review, New Letters, and Vogue.

This event is colloquium credit eligible. Register for the Zoom livestream. 

Professor Jamee Moudud will be the first professor of the Fall semester in our Faculty Spotlight series. Come join us in the Library Rainbow Reading Room for a live-recorded podcast where Jamee will discuss his new book, Legal and Political Foundations of Capitalism: The End of Laissez Faire?

Join us for a conversation with award-winning poet and teacher Bobby Elliott ’11 on writing and assembling first books of poetry. Exploring the ins and outs of the process, Elliott will examine what it takes to go from a strong group of poems to a full-length manuscript, how to begin thinking through questions of sequencing and structure and the importance of a sustained writing practice after the MFA. A full Q&A and book signing will follow. 

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Megan Milks is the author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction, and Slug and Other Stories, both published by Feminist Press in 2021. Their personal history of early online music fandom, Tori Amos Bootleg Webring, was published in 2021. With Marisa Crawford, they co-edited the anthology We Are the Baby-Sitters Club: Essays and Artwork from Grown-Up Readers (Chicago Review Press, 2021). They live in Brooklyn and teach writing at The New School and in the Low-Residency Creative Writing MFA program at Pacific Northwest College of Art. Their next book, Mega Milk: Essays, is forthcoming in January 2026.

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Join us online on September 25th at 5 pm EST for our Writing Institute Community Reading! This reading is open to current or former Writing Institute students. Readers have 3 to 4 minutes to read (or 650 words). Interested in reading? Sign up! Our featured instructor reader will be Suzanne Wise!

Sloane Crosley is the author of The New York Times bestselling books Grief Is for People, which was also named a Best Book of 2024 by Vogue, Elle, NPR, LitHub, Oprah Daily, and many more, How Did You Get This Number, and I Was Told There’d Be Cake (a 2009 finalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor). She is also the author of Look Alive Out There (a 2019 finalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor) and the novels, Cult Classic and The Clasp, both of which she has adapted for film.

She has been featured in The Library of America's 50 Funniest American Writers, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Best American Travel Writing and Phillip Lopate’s The Contemporary American Essay. She has been a columnist for The Village Voice, Vanity Fair, Esquire, The Independent, Departures, Black Book and The New York Observer. A contributing editor at Vanity Fair, her work has appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Vogue and The Guardian. A Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and Yaddo Fellow, she has also been an adjunct professor in Columbia University’s MFA program and The New School’s MFA program, as well as a guest lecturer at Dartmouth College, The Yale Writers’ Workshop, The School of Visual Arts, New York University and Bowdoin College. She lives in New York City.

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

Sloane Crosley is the author of The New York Times bestselling books Grief Is for People, which was also named a Best Book of 2024 by Vogue, Elle, NPR, LitHub, Oprah Daily, and many more, How Did You Get This Number, and I Was Told There’d Be Cake (a 2009 finalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor). She is also the author of Look Alive Out There (a 2019 finalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor) and the novels, Cult Classic and The Clasp, both of which she has adapted for film.

She has been featured in The Library of America's 50 Funniest American Writers, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Best American Travel Writing and Phillip Lopate’s The Contemporary American Essay. She has been a columnist for The Village Voice, Vanity Fair, Esquire, The Independent, Departures, Black Book and The New York Observer. A contributing editor at Vanity Fair, her work has appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Vogue and The Guardian. A Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and Yaddo Fellow, she has also been an adjunct professor in Columbia University’s MFA program and The New School’s MFA program, as well as a guest lecturer at Dartmouth College, The Yale Writers’ Workshop, The School of Visual Arts, New York University and Bowdoin College. She lives in New York City.

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

Join us for an online reading with speculative fiction authors Daria Lavelle MFA ’21 (author of Aftertaste) and Silvia Park (author of Luminous), followed by a conversation with their literary agent Lucy Carson (The Friedrich Agency).  

Daria Lavelle MFA ’21 is a speculative fiction writer. Her short stories have appeared in The Deadlands, Dread Machine, Dark Matters, and elsewhere, and her debut novel, Aftertaste, was published by Simon & Schuster (US) and Bloomsbury (UK) in 2025, and is currently being translated into thirteen languages. Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, and raised in the New York metro area, she holds degrees in writing from Princeton University and Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in New Jersey with her family, and can often be found in a coffeeshop, inventing new worlds or distorting this one.

Silvia Park's stories have been published in Black Warrior Review, Tor, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, and elsewhere. They hold an MFA from NYU and attended the Clarion Science and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop and Tin House Summer Workshop. They teach fiction at the University of Kansas and split their selves between Lawrence and Seoul. Their first novel Luminous was published by Simon & Schuster in 2025.

Lucy Carson joined The Friedrich Agency in 2008, and she has since cultivated a list of fiction and narrative non-fiction for the adult trade audience. In addition to brokering domestic publishing deals for her own clients, Lucy also oversees all Film, Television & Dramatic business for the wider agency list. During her 17 years with The Friedrich Agency, Lucy has worked with established bestselling authors such as Sue Grafton, Elizabeth Strout, Ruth Ozeki, Terry McMillan, and Karen Joy Fowler, while launching many debut authors as well, including Leila Mottley, Alison Espach, Rachel Harrison, Silvia Park and Daria Lavelle.

This event is colloquium credit eligible. REGISTER HERE.