Peter Carey is one of three writers in history to have won the Booker Prize twice, first for Oscar and Lucinda and then for True History of the Kelly Gang. His Parrot and Olivier in America was shortlisted for the both the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award. Born in Australia, Peter Carey […]
Mary Ruefle is the author of many books, including The Book (Wave Books, 2023), Dunce (Wave Books, 2019), which was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize, longlisted for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award, as well as a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize. She is also the author of My Private Property (Wave […]
Shannon Robinson’s debut short story collection, The Ill-Fitting Skin, is winner of the Press 53 Award for Short Fiction. Her writing has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, Joyland, Nimrod, failbetter, The Hopkins Review, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in fiction from Washington University in St. Louis, and in 2011 she was […]
Vauhini Vara is the author of This is Salvaged, which was longlisted for the Story Prize and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, and The Immortal King Rao, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and was […]
William Logan presents the Turnbull Poetry Lecture: “The Shadow of Sex: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 129.” William Logan writes poetry and criticism. His most recent books are Rift of Light (poems, Penguin, 2017) and Broken Ground: Poetry and the Demon of History (essays and reviews, Columbia University Press, 2021). His reviews, when there are reviews, appear in […]
Gilman Hall 50 Writing Seminars Presents: Armen Davoudian and Jenny Xie Armen Davoudian Davoudian is the author of the poetry collection The Palace of Forty Pillars and the translator, from Persian, of Hopscotch by Fatemeh Shams. He grew up in Isfahan, Iran, and is a PhD candidate in English at Stanford University. Photo credit: Matthew Lansburgh Jenny […]
Sigrid Nunez has published nine novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, The Friend, What Are You Going Through, and, most recently, The Vulnerables. Nunez is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. The Friend, a New York Times bestseller, won the 2018 National […]
The Hopkins Review & the Writing Seminars: AWP Off-Site Party & Reading ArtShare L.A., 801 E 4th Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90013 Please join us on Friday evening, March 28th, at Art Share L.A. for FREE food, drinks, & short readings by Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars affiliates and Hopkins Review contributors. Readers will include: […]
Eric Puchner is the author of the new novel Dream State. His other books include the novel Model Home, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and two collections of short stories, Last Day on Earth and Music Through the Floor, a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award. His stories and personal essays […]
Public Memorial & Brunch Sunday, April 6, 2025 (Johns Hopkins University Alumni Weekend) 10 am - 12 pm Mason Hall Auditorium, JHU Homewood Campus 3101 Wyman Park Dr, Baltimore, MD 21218 John Barth (A&S '51, MA '52), groundbreaking and prolific author, revered teacher, and professor emeritus in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, died […]
Join us for a conversation about editing and publishing your creative work & careers in writing and editing, with poet Richie Hofmann and novelist Katherine Howe. Richie Hofmann is the author of The Bronze Arms, A Hundred Lovers, and Second Empire. His poetry has appeared recently in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, and […]
Yona Harvey is the author of You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love, winner of The Believer Book Award in Poetry, and Hemming the Water, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications including Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, The Best American Poetry, Letters to the Future: Black Women/Radical Writing and A Poet’s Craft: […]