Writers Series

Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024
5 p.m.
210 Hamilton Smith Hall

Donald Revell

Donald Revell is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, six volumes of translations from the French, and three volumes of critical writings, including Essay: A Critical Memoir. A former Fellow of the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundations, he is the winner of the PEN USA Translation Award and two-time winner of the PEN USA Award for Poetry, and he has twice been awarded Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Thursday, Oct. 10th, 2024
5 p.m.
210 Hamilton Smith Hall

Nina MacLaughlin

Nina MacLaughlin is the author of Wake, Siren (FSG), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Massachusetts Book Award, as well as Winter Solstice and Summer Solstice (Black Sparrow). Her first book was the acclaimed memoir Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter (W.W. Norton), a finalist for the New England Book Award. Formerly an editor at the Boston Phoenix, she worked for nine years as a carpenter, and now writes a weekly books column for the Boston Globe. Her work has appeared on or in The Paris Review Daily, The Virginia Quarterly Review, n+1, The Believer, The New York Times Book Review, Agni, American Short Fiction, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Meatpaper, and elsewhere. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Thursday, Nov. 7th, 2024
5 p.m.
210 Hamilton Smith Hall

Lewis Robinson

Lewis Robinson is the author of Officer Friendly and Other Stories, Water Dogs, and The Islanders. He is the winner of a Whiting Award, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award, and a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His writing has appeared in Sports Illustrated, The New York Times Book Review, and on the National Public Radio program Selected Shorts. He teaches at the University of Maine at Farmington and lives in Portland, Maine with his family.

Thursday, Feb. 6th, 2025
5 p.m.
210 Hamilton Smith Hall

Sarah Stickney & Heather Treseler

Sarah Stickney's poems have appeared in journals such as Crazyhorse, Massachusetts Review, Guesthouse Lit, Forklift Ohio, and others. Her chapbook Portico was selected by Thomas Lux as 2016 winner of Emrys Press's annual competition. Her co-translations of Elisa Biagini's selected poems, The Guest in the Wood, won the Best Translated Book Award for poetry in 2014, and a more complete collection of Biagini’s translated work To the Teeth was published in September 2021. Her first full-length book of poetry, A Lion was issued by MadHat press in May of 2024. Stickney teaches at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

Heather Treseler is the author of Auguries & Divinations, which received the 2023 May Sarton New Hampshire Prize, and Parturition, which won the Munster Literature Centre’s chapbook prize in Ireland and the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award. Her poems appear in The American Scholar, Harvard Review, The Iowa Review, and Kenyon Review. Her essays appear in Boston Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and in eight books about American poetry. Recipient of the W. B. Yeats Prize, Narrative magazine’s annual poetry prize, and the Editors’ Prize at The Missouri Review, she is professor of English at Worcester State University and a scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center. She lives outside of Boston.

Thursday, Mar. 6th, 2025
5 p.m.
210 Hamilton Smith Hall

Ian Frisch

Ian Frisch is an award-winning journalist and author specializing in narrative and investigative feature reporting. His first non-fiction book, Magic Is Dead: My Journey Into the World's Most Secretive Society of Magicians, was included in Amazon's Best Books of the Month for Memoir and Best Books of the Year (So Far). His second book, Inside the Cartel: How an Undercover FBI Agent Smuggled Cocaine, Laundered Cash, and Dismantled a Colombian Narco Empire, will be published in May, 2025. He has written for: The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Esquire, Bloomberg Businessweek, Wired, Playboy, Town & Country, and The Verge, among many others. His work has been optioned for film and television by NBCUniversal, Broadway Video, AGBO, Midnight Radio, Black Label Media, and Lionsgate. He is also the co-creator and executive producer of truTV's Big Trick Energy, and was consulting producer on Netflix's investigative docu-series Exhibit A. After spending over a decade in Brooklyn, he now lives in Greenland, New Hampshire. 

Thursday Apr. 10th, 2025
5 p.m.
210 Hamilton Smith Hall

Daphne Kalotay

Published in 20+ languages, Daphne Kalotay’s works include the award-winning novels Russian Winter, Sight Reading, and Blue Hours and two story collections: Calamity and Other Stories, shortlisted for The Story Prize, and, most recently, The Archivists, winner of the Grace Paley Prize, longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize and Massachusetts Book Award, and a Boston Authors Club, “Notable Book.” A recipient of fellowships from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, MacDowell, and Yaddo, Daphne lives in Somerville, Massachusetts and is Special Program Instructor in the Masters in Creative Writing and Literature Program at Harvard University’s Division of Continuing Education.