As a part of the VCU Visiting Writers Series, author Craig Nova and poet Tom Sleigh will be reading Thursday, March 14th at 7PM in the VCU Scott House.  This event is free and open to the public. 

Craig Nova is the award-winning author of twelve novels and one autobiography. His next novel, All the Dead Yale Men, the sequel to The Good Son, will be published in 2012. Nova’s writing has appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, The New York Times Magazine, and Men’s Journal, among others.

He has received an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2005 he was named Class of 1949 Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

Tom Sleigh is the author of eight books of poetry, including Army Cats and Space Walk which won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Award. He has received the Shelley Prize from the PSA, a Fellowship from the American Academyin Berlin, the John Updike Award and an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an Individual Writer’s Award from the Lila Wallace/Reader’s Digest Fund, a Guggenheim grant, and two National Endowment for the Arts grants, among many others. He teaches in the MFA Program at Hunter College and lives in Brooklyn. 

The VCU Visiting Writers Series is sponsored by the Department of English of the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences and the Graduate Writers’ Association, with additional funding made possible through the generosity of James Branch Cabell Library Associates, Friends of the Library, the VCU Libraries, the VCU Honors College, Barnes & Noble @ VCU Bookstore, and the family of Larry Levis.

As a part of the VCU Visiting Writers Series, author Ann Hood and poet Catherine MacDonald will be reading on Thursday, February 7th at 7PM in the VCU Scott House.

This event is free and open to the public. 

Ann Hood’s most recent novel is The Red Thread.  She is the author of the bestselling novel, The Knitting Circle, and the memoir, Comfort: A Journey Through Grief, which was named one of the top ten nonfiction books of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice. Her other novels include: Waiting to Vanish, Three-Legged Horse, Something Blue, Places to Stay The Night, The Properties of Water, Ruby and Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine,  Her essays and short stories have appeared in Good Housekeeping, The New York Times, Ladies Home Journal, More, Tin House, Ploughshares, and The Paris Review. Ann has won a Best American Spiritual Writing Award, the Paul Bowles Prize for Short Fiction, and two Pushcart Prizes. She lives in Providence, RI with her husband and their children.

Catherine MacDonald is the winner of the 2012 Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize for her collection Rousing the Machinery (University of Arkansas Press). Her work has been published in Washington Square, Crab Orchard Review, Blackbird, Cortland Review, Louisville Review, and other journals. She has also received scholarships and fellowships to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Ropewalk, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She teaches writing at Virginia Commonwealth University.

The VCU Visiting Writers Series is sponsored by the Department of English of the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences and the Graduate Writers’ Association, with additional funding made possible through the generosity of James Branch Cabell Library Associates, Friends of the Library, the VCU Libraries, the VCU Honors College, Barnes & Noble @ VCU Bookstore, and the family of Larry Levis.

As a part of the VCU Visiting Writers Series, author Melinda Moustakis and poet Paisley Rekdal  will be reading on Thursday, January 24th at 7PM in the VCU Scott House.  This event is free and open to the public. 

Melinda Moustakis is the author of Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories, which won the Flannery O’ Connor Award and was shortlisted for the 2012 William Saroyan International Prize in Writing. She received her MA from UC Davis and her PhD from Western Michigan University. Her work has appeared in New England Review, American Short Fiction, Alaska Quarterly Review, Kenyon Review and elsewhere. She was named a 2011 5 Under 35 writer by the National Book Foundation and is currently a 2012-2013 Hodder Fellow at the Lewis Center of the Arts at Princeton University

Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee and four books of poetry, A Crash of Rhinos, Six Girls Without Pants, The Invention of the Kaleidoscope, Animal Eye, and a hybrid photo-text memoir that combines poems, nonfiction and fiction entitled Intima­­te. Her work has received a Village Voice Writers on the Verge Award, an NEA Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, the University of Georgia Press’ Contemporary Poetry Series Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship. Her poems and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming from The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, Virginia Quarterly Review, Tin House, Best American Poetry 2012, and on National Public Radio among others.

The VCU Visiting Writers Series is sponsored by the Department of English of the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences and the Graduate Writers’ Association, with additional funding made possible through the generosity of James Branch Cabell Library Associates, Friends of the Library, the VCU Libraries, the VCU Honors College, Barnes & Noble @ VCU Bookstore, and the family of Larry Levis.

For more information please visit us on the web at http://www.has.vcu.edu/eng/graduate/mfa/visiting_writers.htm or call 804-828-1329.