Leslie Jamison is the best-selling author of the novel The Gin Closet, the essay collection The Empathy Exams, and The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath, which blends memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage. She currently is an assistant professor at the Columbia University School of the Arts MFA program, where she directs the nonfiction concentration.
A veteran of the Vietnam War, Bruce Weigl has published more than a dozen poetry collections — among them The Abundance of Nothing, The Unraveling Strangeness, Sweet Lorain, and Song of Napalm — in addition to the memoir The Circle of Hanh. Twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, Weigl has received the Robert Creeley Award, the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, the Paterson Poetry Prize, and the Poet’s Prize from the Academy of American Poets, among other distinctions.
Distinguished Visiting Writer Amy Hempel will give a public reading at 6 pm on Monday, Oct. 22, in Clark Lounge, Campus Center.
Distinguished Visiting Writer Ander Monson will give a public reading at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 18 in Clark Lounge, Campus Center.
Distinguished Visiting Writer Dorianne Laux will give a public reading at 5:30 pm on Thursday, Oct. 4, in Clark Lounge, Campus Center.