The Writing Seminars

ZOOM EVENT LINK Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto was born in Sicily in 1994. Interlinea Edizioni published her first book of poems, Dolore Minimo, in 2018. This debut is the first collection of Italian poetry to address trans identity. The book won prizes that include the 2019 Viareggio Opera Prima. In 2020, BUR Rizzoli published Vivinetto’s second book of poems, Dove […]

Tobias Wolff’s books include the memoirs This Boy’s Life and In Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of the Lost War;  the short novel The Barracks Thief; the novel Old School, and four collections of short stories, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, Back in the World, The Night in Question, and, most recently, Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories. He has also edited several anthologies, among them Best American Short […]

This event will focus on Willard Spiegelman's recent biography on the life and poetry of Amy Clampitt, "Nothing Stays Put." Willard Spiegelman is the Hughes Professor of English, Emeritus, at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where he taught from 1971 until 2017, and where he was the editor-in-chief of the Southwest Review (1984-2016). He will speak mThe […]

Christine Grillo is a writer and an editor whose short fiction has appeared in StoryQuarterly, The Southern Review, and LIT. Her nonfiction covers science, public health, food systems, agriculture, and climate change, and has been published in outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic: CityLab, Audubon, NextTribe, and Real Simple. Grillo earned degrees at […]

Bruce Snider is the author of three poetry collections, Fruit, winner of the Four Lakes Prize from the University of Wisconsin Press; Paradise, Indiana; and The Year We Studied Women. He is also the co-editor of The Poem’s Country: Place and Poetic Practice. His writing has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Poetry, and Threepenny Review, among […]