Visiting Writers Series
Nebraska Wesleyan University's Visiting Writers Series brings prominent national and international writers to campus. In addition to giving public readings, our visiting writers meet with students to discuss the craft of writing. The mission of this series remains the promotion of literary experiences with contemporary writers meant to enliven and to educate young writers here at NWU.
All readings are free and open to the public.
Ishmael Klein (Poet/Playwright)
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
6 p.m.
Callen Conference Center
Ish Klein's published books are: Consolation and Mirth, Moving Day, and Union! and the chapbook “Every Animal Is Your Mother”. S/he attended the Iowa Writers Workshop for Poetry and Columbia University where she was a student of Kenneth Koch. Her poems have appeared on the Poetry Foundation website, Fence magazine, Epiphany Magazine and Jubilat among others.
Ish is a founding member of the Connecticut River Valley Poets Theater or CRVPT. Her play, “In A Word, Faust” has been performed internationally; it was published by the Cambridge Literary Review. Her play, The Orchids, was a finalist for the Leslie Scalapino Award. She is also the author of the plays The Dee Men, Drummer 41, and The Storm (a play based on the Tempest as told from the point of view of the island). She and her partner Greg Purcell live in Chicago.
Julia Whicker (Novelist)
Thursday, February 21, 2019
p.m.
Callen Conference Center
>Julia Whicker is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she won both the Capote Fellowship and the Teaching-Writing Fellowship. She’s had her poetry and essays published in the Iowa Review, Word Riot and The Millions, among others, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Wonderblood was named one of the best science fiction books for April 2018 by the Washington Post. Julia lives with her husband and daughter in Pennsylvania.
Anjali Sachdeva (Fiction Writer)
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
8:30 p.m.
Callen Conference Center
>Anjali Sachdeva’s fiction has appeared in The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, Yale Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Literary Review, and Best American Nonrequired Reading. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has taught writing at the University of Iowa, Augustana College, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Pittsburgh. She also worked for six years at the Creative Nonfiction Foundation, where she was Director of Educational Programs. She has hiked through the backcountry of Canada, Iceland, Kenya, Mexico, and the United States, and spent much of her childhood reading fantasy novels and waiting to be whisked away to an alternate universe. Instead, she lives in Pittsburgh, which is pretty wonderful as far as places in this universe go.
Past Visiting Writers
Year | Writers |
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Fall 2018 | Traci Brimhall Lisa Wells Jamel Brinkley |
Spring 2018 | Carolyn Hembree Sandy Longhorn Julie Schumacher Robyn Schiff Nick Twemlow |
Fall 2017 | Cole Swensen Carol Guess |
Spring 2017 | Brenda Shaughnessy Brian Blanchfield |
Fall 2016 | Peter Gizzi Claudia Rankine Lucy Ives |
Spring 2016 | Porochista Khakpour Michael Knight Shane McCrae |
Fall 2015 | Dagoberto Gilb J.D. Schraffenberger Kit Yan |
Spring 2015 | Sarah Braunstein Erik Campbell Robert Fernandez Mary Hickman Amaud Jamaul Johnson Bradford Tice |
Fall 2014 | Mark Jay Brewin, Jr. Travis Mossotti David James Poissant Christine Sneed |
Spring 2014 | Trey Moody Joshua Robbins Mary Helen Stefaniak |
Fall 2013 | Tricia Currans-Sheehan Jeanne Emmons Kristi Maxwell Bradford Tice Laura van den Berg |
Spring 2013 | Oni Buchanan Charlotte Pence Adam Prince John Walker Jon Woodward |
Fall 2012 | Chi Tak Chan Chun Ying Lin Caryl Pagel Lysley Tenorio Stephanie Ye |
Spring 2012 | Suzanne Buffam Jennifer S. Davis David Philip Mullins Srikanth Reddy |
Fall 2011 | Margaret Lazarus Dean Hye-Kyung Lee Dorothy Tse Susan Wheeler Yueran Zhang |
Spring 2011 | Jessica Savitz Willy Vlautin |
Fall 2010 | Meg Kearney Ed Roberson Robert Wrigley |
Spring 2010 | Arthur Smith Hannah Tinti |
Fall 2009 | Marcia Douglas John McManus |
Spring 2009 | Mary Jo Bang Brian Evenson Sheila Heti Gary Lutz |
Fall 2008 | Joanna Klink Timothy Liu |
Spring 2008 | Chris Bachelder William Henry Lewis Ben Marcus Selah Saterstrom |
Fall 2007 | Erik Campbell Graham Foust Christian Hawkey Harryette Mullen Sawako Nakayasu |
Spring 2007 | Cary Holladay Josip Novakovich Julie Orringer Bapsi Sidhwa |
Fall 2006 | Grace Bauer Anthony Hawley Jeffrey McDaniel Robyn Schiff |
Spring 2006 | Chris Offutt Z.Z. Packer |
Fall 2005 | John D’Agata Denise Duhamel Dean Young |
Contact or visit us
English DepartmentStephanie Loos, Staff Assistant
Old Main, Room 102
Lincoln, NE 68504
(402) 465-2343
sloos [at] nebrwesleyan.edu