Writers Series

Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025
5 p.m.
210 Hamilton Smith Hall

Elise Juska

Elise Juska is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. Her latest novel is Reunion, released in 2024 by HarperCollins and named a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Her previous novels include If We Had Known and The Blessings, a Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers selection and one of the Philadelphia Inquirer’s best books. 

Elise’s work has appeared in The Missouri Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Hudson Review, Prairie Schooner, Electric Literature, LitHub, Ploughshares, and many other publications. 

Elise is a graduate of Bowdoin College and the University of New Hampshire.
 

Thursday, Oct. 23rd, 2025
5 p.m.
210 Hamilton Smith Hall

Chelsea Conoboy

Chelsea Conaboy is a writer focused on health, science and narrative storytelling whose work has been published by The New York Times, The Guardian, Mother Jones, WBUR, Politico, and elsewhere. Since graduating from UNH in 2004, she has been a staff reporter or editor at the Concord Monitor, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Boston Globe and the Portland Press Herald. She is creative director at the media production company Strewn Wonder and writes a very occasional Substack newsletter, Between Us. Her first book, Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood, has been called "a game-changer" and is set to be published in 20 languages. She lives in Maine with her husband, their two children, and her own ever-changing parental brain.

Thursday, Nov. 13th, 2025
5 p.m.
210 Hamilton Smith Hall

Anselm Berrigan

Author of eight books of poetry and numerous chapbooks, Anselm Berrigan earned a BA from SUNY Buffalo and an MFA from Brooklyn College. His collections of poetry include Integrity & Dramatic Life (1999), Zero Star Hotel (2002), Some Notes on My Programming (2006), Free Cell (2009), Something for Everybody (2018)and the book-length poems Notes from Irrelevance (2011) and Primitive State (2015).

Berrigan was the recipient of a 2017 Grant for Artists from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts, a Robert Rauschenberg Residency in 2014 from the Rauschenberg Foundation, a 2007 poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and several grants from The Fund for Poetry. He directed the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church from 2003 to 2007 and is Writing co-chair for the interdisciplinary MFA program at Bard College.

Thursday, Feb. 5th, 2026
5 p.m.
210 Hamilton Smith Hall

James Sullivan

James Sullivan is a journalist and the author of five books, specializing in popular culture and Americana. He is a longtime contributor to the Boston Globe, a former staff writer and critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, and a former editor for Rolling Stone. He is also the Program Director for the Newburyport Documentary Film Festival and co-founder of Lit Crawl Boston.

Thursday, Mar. 12th, 2026
5 p.m.
210 Hamilton Smith Hall

Chris McCormick

Chris McCormick is the author of a novel, The Gimmicks (Harper, 2020), a New York Times Editors' Choice, and a short story collection, Desert Boys, winner of the 2017 Stonewall Book Award—Barbara Gittings Literature Award. His essays and stories have appeared in The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, and The Southern Review. The son of an Armenian mother and an American father, he grew up in the Antelope Valley on the California side of the Mojave Desert before earning his BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and his MFA from the University of Michigan. He is Associate Professor in the creative writing program at Minnesota State University, Mankato, and is at work on his next book with the support of a 2024 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Thursday Apr. 2nd, 2026
5 p.m.
210 Hamilton Smith Hall

Chloe Garcia Roberts

Chloe Garcia Roberts is a poet and translator from the Spanish and Chinese. She is the author of Fire Eater: A Translator's Theology and a book of poetry, The Reveal, which was published as part of Noemi Press’s Akrilika Series for innovative Latino writing.  Her work has appeared in such publications as the Yale Review, BOMB, Conjunctions, and the Kenyon Review. She lives outside Boston and works as deputy editor of Harvard Review, translation editor for the Harvard Library Bulletin, and as a lecturer of poetry at MIT.