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Great Writers, Great Readings Series
Fall 2019
16th Annual Great Writers, Great Readings Series
Wednesday, September 25, 6:30 p.m.
Natasha Trethewey
US Poet Laureate (2012-2014), Pulitzer Prize-Winner
Tuesday, October 15, 6:30 p.m.
Kenny Fries
Award-Winning Memoirist, Poet and Librettist
Wednesday, November 13, 6:30 p.m.
Colson Whitehead
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author
Great Writers, Great Readings was launched by Hofstra University in recognition of the importance of writing and literature in a liberal arts education. In addition to a baccalaureate degree in English and American Literature, creative writing, and publishing, Hofstra currently offers an MFA in Creative Writing. The MFA faculty currently includes director Miguel-Angel Zapata, authors Julia Markus, Kelly McMasters, and two Guggenheim Fellows: novelist Martha McPhee and poet Phillis Levin. Serving on the faculty of the new MFA in Creative Writing for Writers of Spanish are Professor Zapata and author Álvaro Enrigue.
Each Great Writers, Great Readings event brings a notable author to campus to meet with creative writing students for a short workshop and question/answer session. The author also conducts a reading and book signing that is open to the public. Sometimes the authors use this forum as an opportunity to introduce new, unpublished works.
