Writers Series

Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022
5 p.m.
210 Hamilton Smith Hall

Kate Gale

Kate Gale is the author of the forthcoming The Loneliest Girl from the University of New Mexico Press and of seven books of poetry including The Goldilocks Zone from the University of New Mexico Press in 2014, and Echo Light from Red Mountain in 2014 and six librettos including Rio de Sangre, a libretto for an opera with composer Don Davis, which had its world premiere October 2010 at the Florentine Opera in Milwaukee. Kate is also the co-founder and Managing Editor of Red Hen Press, and Editor of the Los Angeles Review.

Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022
5 p.m.
205 Hamilton Smith Hall

Rachael Cerrotti

Rachael Cerrotti is an award-winning author, educator and documentary storyteller. In 2019, Rachael released her first podcast — We Share The Same Sky. It was the first-ever narrative podcast based on a Holocaust survivor’s testimony and tells the story of her decadelong journey to retrace her grandmother’s war story. Her critically-acclaimed debut memoir, also titled We Share The Same Sky, was released in August 2021.

After the sudden loss of her young husband in 2016, Rachael began Welcome to Widowhood, an ongoing portrait series that tells the stories of women under 40 who have lost their partners. She continues to tell her own grief story on Instagram with #nowawidowstillawife and photographs individuals navigating life in the wake of tragic change.

Rachael’s work has been published and featured by NPR, PRI’s The World, GBH, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and various other publications.
https://www.rachaelcerrotti.com/contact

Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022
5 p.m.
210 Hamilton Smith Hall

Olena Kalytiak Davis

Olena Kalytiak Davis, a first-generation Ukrainian-American, was born and raised in Detroit, and educated at Wayne State University, the University of Michigan Law School, and Vermont College. This is her fourth full length collection. Her first book, And Her Soul Out Of Nothing (University of Wisconsin Press 1997), received the Brittingham Prize. Kalytiak Davis’s honors also include a Rona Jaffe Award, a Pushcart Prize, and a Guggenheim. Kalytiak Davis lives in Anchorage and Brooklyn.

Thursday, March 2, 2023
5 p.m.
210 Hamilton Smith Hall

Maggie Doherty

Maggie Doherty writes literary criticism, reviews, essays, and the occasional reported feature or profile. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, and the Nation, among other publications. 

The Equivalents, her first book, was published in May 2020. It's about a group of women artists and writers who came together at the Radcliffe Institute in the early 1960s. The book describes their creative lives and artistic collaborations and how these things shaped and were shaped by the women's liberation movement. You can read more here. 

Thursday, March 23, 2023
5 p.m.
210 Hamilton Smith Hall

Katie Crouch

Katie Crouch is the author of Embassy Wife, nominated for a Joyce Carol Oates Prize deemed by the New York Times as “a sharply observed satire of the white-savior complex and the poisonous legacy of colonialism.” She is also the author of the New York Times bestseller, Girls in Trucks and the novels Men and Dogs and Abroad. Professor Crouch has written essays for The New York Times, Slate, Salon, and Tin House, and has been awarded fellowships from Columbia University and the MacDowell Colony. She teaches Creative Writing at Dartmouth College and lives in Norwich, Vermont.

Thursday April 6, 2023
5 p.m.
210 Hamilton Smith Hall

Stephanie Burt

Burt grew up around Washington, DC, and received an A.B. from Harvard in 1994 and a Ph.D. in English from Yale in 2000. She taught at Macalester College for several years before becoming a professor of English at Harvard University.

The New York Times called Burt “one of the most influential poetry critics of her generation.” The recipient of a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship, her writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, the Believer, and the Boston Review.

https://blueflowerarts.com/artist/stephanie-burt/