Amy Leach will present Monday, March 13 as part of Nebraska Wesleyan's Visiting Writers Series. 

Leach grew up in Texas and earned her MFA from the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Her work has appeared in The Best American Essays, The Best American Science and Nature Writing, and numerous other publications, including Granta, A Public Space, Orion, Tin House, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She is a recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award, and a Pushcart Prize. Her books are Things That Are and The Everybody Ensemble. Leach lives in Bozeman and teaches creative writing at Montana State University.

The event is free and open to the public.

Kwame Dawes will deliver the William C. Kloefkorn Nebraska Writers Series lecture at 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 20 in Elder Gallery.

Dawes has authored 36 books of poetry, fiction, criticism, and essays, including, most recently, Nebraska (UNP, 2019), Bivouac (Akashic Books, 2019), and City of Bones: A Testament (Northwestern, 2017). Speak from Here to There (Peepal Tree Press), co-written with Australian poet John Kinsella, appeared in 2016. Dawes is Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of Nebraska. He is also a faculty member in the Pacific MFA Program. He is director of the African Poetry Book Fund and artistic director of the Calabash International Literary Festival. Dawes is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

William Kloefkorn taught English at Nebraska Wesleyan for 35 years from 1962 to 1997. He died in May 2011.

The event is free and open to the public.

Nebraska Wesleyan's Elder Gallery will showcase recent gifts to the university's permanent collection in an exhibition entitled Virtuosity. Permanent collection artwork aims to inspire and educate the Nebraska Wesleyan community. Many additional works of art can be viewed across campus.

The collection is continually growing due the generous donations. Recent donors that helped make Virtuosity possible include: Connie Gillock, Reba Huge, Josh Johnson, Lisa Lockman, Laird Nygren, Dennis Schmidt and Amanda Smith.

The exhibition opens Tuesday, February 28, with a reception on March 31 from 5-7 p.m. in Elder Gallery, located inside the Rogers Center for Fine Arts at 50th Street and Huntington Ave. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Friday from 1 to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1-4 p.m.