2026-2027
Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026
5 p.m.
210 Hamilton Smith Hall
Rosanna Warren
Rosanna Warren taught in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago from 2012 to 2023 (now Emerita). Her book of criticism, Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry, came out in 2008. Her most recent books of poems are Hindsight (2025), So Forth (2020), Ghost in a Red Hat (2011), and Departure (2003). Her biography of Max Jacob, Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters was published in October 2020. She is the recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets, The American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Lila Wallace Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the New England Poetry Club, among others. She was a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1999 to 2005, a Berlin Fellow in 2006, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. Her poems have been included in twelve editions of Best American Poetry and three Pushcart Prize volumes.
Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026
5 p.m.
210 Hamilton Smith Hall
Shannon Garvey
Shannon Garvey is the author of the novel JUNE BABY, which debuted as a USA Today Bestseller. JUNE BABY is a New York Times Editor’s Pick and has been featured on the “Today” Show, in Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar, Southern Living Magazine, and more. Shorter work of hers has been published in the Saturday Evening Post. She received her MFA from the University of New Hampshire, where she taught undergraduate classes.
Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026
5 p.m.
210 Hamilton Smith Hall
Andrew Merton
Andrew Merton's journalism and essays have appeared in publications including The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe, Esquire, Ms. Magazine, Glamour, and Boston Magazine. His book Enemies of Choice: The Right-to-Life Movement and Its Threat to Abortion was published by Beacon Press in 1981. His poetry has appeared in the Alaska Quarterly Review, Bellevue Literary Review, The Rialto, Comstock Review, Asheville Poetry Review, Louisville Review, The American Journal of Nursing, and elsewhere. He is the author of four books of poetry, and his new memoir, Gloria Steinem Blurbed Me (and Other Miracles) was released by Accents Publishing this fall. He is a professor emeritus of English at UNH.
Thursday, Feb. 11, 2027
5 p.m.
210 Hamilton Smith Hall
Ann Joslin Williams
Ann Joslin Williams is the author of the novels Skyland and Down From Cascom Mountain, and a collection of linked short stories The Woman in the Woods. She is the recipient of awards from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction, the New Hampshire Writers’ Project Literary Awards, and the Stegner Program at Stanford University. Her writing has appeared in many journals including The Sun, Carve, Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, The Iowa Review and elsewhere. She is an associate professor emerita of English at the University of New Hampshire.
Thursday, Mar. 4, 2027
5 p.m.
210 Hamilton Smith Hall
Prageeta Sharma
Prageeta Sharma is the author of six collections of poetry; her most recent collection is Onement Won, out from Wave Books (2025). She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Race, Creative Writing, and Artistic and Aesthetic Practices, a recent recipient of the 2025 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, and is currently the Henry G. Lee ’37 professor of English at Pomona College
Thursday Apr. 1, 2027
5 p.m.
210 Hamilton Smith Hall
John Seabrook
John Seabrook is the author of “The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty”. “Having left this material for his writer son, my father must have wanted the story told, even if he couldn’t bear to tell it himself.” So begins the story of a forgotten American dynasty, a farming family from the bean fields of southern New Jersey that became wealthy and powerful aristocrats—only to implode in a storm of lies. John Seabrook has been a staff writer at The New Yorker for more than three decades. He is the author of The Song Machine, Flash of Genius, Nobrow and other books. The film “Flash of Genius” was based on one of his stories. He and his family live in Brooklyn.
The UNH Writers Series is made possible through the support of the MacArthur/Simic and Edmund G. Miller Funds, Susan Mercandetti, and the Ben and Zelma Dorson Family Charitable Foundation.
Please contact the UNH English Department for more information about this year's speakers, or with questions about speakers we have brought to campus in previous years. Phone: (603) 862-1313
