The Reading Series
Department of English / Cornell University
Spring 2013 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series
- 2/14 Ishion Hutchinson
- 2/21 Dana Spiotta
- 4/04 Lynn Emanuel
- 4/18 Joanie Mackowski & Stephanie Vaughn
- 4/25 MFA Fiction Students
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE and open to the public.
Go to the Writers at Cornell blog to listen to J.Robert Lennon’s interviews with our visiting writers: www.writersatcornell.com
February 14th Reading
- Ishion Hutchinson
- When: Thursday 4:30 pm
- Location: Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
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- Ishion Hutchinson, Poet
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Ishion Hutchinson, Assistant Professor of English at Cornell, was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He attended the University of the West Indies, Mona, New York University, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Utah. His first collection of poetry, Far District, won the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award. His poetry and essays have appeared in such publications as Attica, Caribbean Review of Books, and LA Review. Before coming to Cornell, he taught at the University of Baltimore.
February 21st Reading
- Dana Spiotta
- When: Thursday 4:30 pm
- Location: Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
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- Dana Spiotta, Fiction Writer
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Dana Spiotta is the author of three novels. Her first, Lightning Field, was a New York Times Notable Book of the year, and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the West in 2001. Eat the Document was a 2006 National Book Award Finalist and a recipient of an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her latest novel, Stone Arabia, was a National Book Critics Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book of 2011. It was named a best book of 2011 by The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Entertainment Weekly and Salon. Spiotta’s honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. The American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy in Rome awarded her the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize for Literature for 2008-2009. She currently teaches at Syracuse University.
April 4th Reading
- Lynn Emanuel
- When: Thursday 4:30 pm
- Location: Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
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- Lynn Emanuel, Poet
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Lynn Emanuel is the author of four books of poetry: Hotel Fiesta; The Dig; Then, Suddenly— (which was awarded the Eric Matthieu King Award from The Academy of American Poets); and, most recently, Noose and Hook. Her work has been featured in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and Best American Poetry and is included in The Oxford Book of American Poetry. She is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a fellowship from the Ranieri Foundation and has been a winner of the National Poetry Series.
April 18th Cleaveland Reading
- Joanie Mackowski & Stephanie Vaughn
- When: Thursday 4:30 pm
- Location: Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
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- Joanie Mackowski, Poet
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Joanie Mackowski is the author of two poetry collections, View From a Temporary Window, and The Zoo, which was awarded the Associated Writing Programs’ Award Series in Poetry and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Her honors include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and the Emily Dickinson Prize from the Poetry Society of America. Her poems appear in Best American Poetry 2007 and Best American Poetry 2009, The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, and in such journals as The Yale Review, New England Review, and Poetry. She is an assistant professor of English at Cornell.
- Stephanie Vaughn, Fiction Writer
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Stephanie Vaughn is Professor of English and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University. Her collection of short stories, Sweet Talk, was recently reissued. Vaughn, whose honors include a Stegner Fellowship, has served as director of Creative Writing three times, as Arts Advisor to the Provost, and as Chair of the Cornell Council for the Arts in addition to participating in other arts task forces. She is currently at work on a novel set in Italy.
- The Richard Cleaveland Memorial Endowment was created in 2002 by family, friends and alumni, in memory of Richard Cleaveland, Cornell Class of ’74.
April 25th HUMAN MACHINE FICTION
- featuring MFA Fiction Students
- When: Thursday 7:00 pm
- Location: Room 120, Physical Sciences Building
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Cornell’s MFA fiction writers—Christopher Drangle, Karen Elterman, Isabelle Gilbert, Joseph Neal, Valer Popa, Adam Price, Lauren Schenkman, and Caroline Zeilenga—will read from work inspired by interactions with Cleverbot and other artificial-intelligence technologies. The project is made possible with technical support from graduate students Jason Yosinski from Computer Science, and Igor Labutov of Cornell’s Creative Machines Lab.
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» For more information about the Spring 2013 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series, contact creativewriting@cornell.edu or call (607) 255-7847.