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.

 

Traci Brimhall (Poet)

Thursday, September 20, 2018
6 p.m.
Callen Conference Center

Traci Brimhall is the author of three collections of poetry: Saudade (Copper Canyon, 2017); Our Lady of the Ruins (2012), winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize; and Rookery (2010), winner of the Crab Orchard First Book Award in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, The New Republic, Poetry and Best American Poetry 2013 and 2014. A recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts, she is currently an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Kansas State University.

 

Lisa Wells (Poet)

Tuesday, October 23, 2018
6 p.m.
Cochrane-Woods Library Learning Commons

Lisa Wells is the author of, The Fix, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, and a book of nonfiction, Believers, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Her work can be found in Harper’s Magazine, Granta, The Believer, N+1, Best New Poets, The Iowa Review and elsewhere. She currently lives in Seattle where she edits a poetry journal, The Volta, and a small press called Letter Machine Editions.

 

Jamel Brinkley (Author)

Thursday, November 8, 2018
8:30 p.m.
Callen Conference Center

Jamel Brinkley is the author of A Lucky Man: Stories (Graywolf Press/A Public Space Books). His fiction has appeared, or is forthcoming, in The Best American Short Stories 2018, A Public Space, Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, The Threepenny Review, Glimmer Train, American Short Fiction, Epiphany, and LitMag. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he was also the 2016-17 Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. His work has received support from Kimbilio Fiction, the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, the Tin House Summer Workshop, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Beginning this fall, he will be a 2018-2020 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University.

 

Past Visiting Writers

Year	Writers
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