Visiting Editor Series Conversation with Elizabeth DeMeo and Alyssa Ogi  

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This semester’s visiting editor series event is a conversation with Elizabeth DeMeo and Alyssa Ogi, acquiring editors at Tin House books. The editors will discuss pathways to publication, career pathways in the book industry, and current conversations impacting the publishing industry. The panel conversation will be followed by a Q and A. This event will […]

Sharon Olds: Albert Dowling Visiting Writer

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Born in San Francisco, Sharon Olds studied at Stanford University and Columbia University. Her numerous honors include a National Endowment for the Arts grant; a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship; the San Francisco Poetry Center Award for her first collection, Satan Says (1980); and the Lamont Poetry Selection and the National Book Critics Circle Award for The […]

Ackerman Visiting Writer: Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto with Gabriella Fee, Dora Malech, and Danila Cannamela

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 […]

President’s Reading Series, Literature of Social Import: Tobias Wolff

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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 […]