Posted on January 26, 2023
Scheduled participants include:
DAN ALBERGOTTI is the author of The Boatloads (BOA Editions, 2008), Millennial Teeth (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014), and three chapbooks from Unicorn Press: The Use of the World (2013), Of Air and Earth (2019) and Circa MMXX (2022). His poems have appeared in 32 Poems, The Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, Five Points, The Southern Review, The Best American Poetry, and The Pushcart Prize, as well as other journals and anthologies. He is a professor of English at Coastal Carolina University.
LEIGH ANNE COUCH is the author Houses Fly Away and Every Lash, winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry. Her poems have been published in magazines including PANK, Pleiades, Gulf Coast, Subtropic, Smartish Pace, and Cincinnati Review, and featured in Verse Daily and the collection The Echoing Green (Penguin). She lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, with writer Kevin Wilson and their sons.
STUART DISCHELL is the author of Good Hope Road, a National Poetry Series Selection, Evenings & Avenues, Dig Safe, Backwards Days, Children With Enemies, The Lookout Man, and the pamphlets Animate Earth and Touch Monkey as well as the chapbook Standing on Z. His poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Agni, The New Republic, Slate, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and anthologies including Essential Poems, Hammer and Blaze, Pushcart Prize, and Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems. A recipient of awards from the NEA, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, he teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.
ANGELA DAVIS-GARDNER has published four critically acclaimed novels, Butterfly’s Child, Plum Wine, Forms of Shelter, and Felice, as well as numerous short stories and essays. Butterfly’s Child, a novel that imagines the fate of Madama Butterfly and Lt. Pinkerton’s son (drawing on the opera Madama Butterfly) was widely praised when it was published in 2011. Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Jennifer Egan called it her “book crush of the year”. Plum Wine, set in Japan during the 1960s, was named a Notable Novel by the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize for its contribution to East-West understanding. Forms of Shelter, which explores the ways a troubled family both acts out and denies the pain at its core, was a best-seller in France. Felice, the story of a young girl growing up in a convent in Nova Scotia in the 1920s, the eccentric nun who is her mentor, and a shipwreck survivor, has been made into an opera which was most recently staged at Opera Breve. A Distinguished Professor Emerita at North Carolina State University, Angela lives in Raleigh, North Carolina
MICHAEL PARKER is the author of eight novels – Hello Down There, Towns Without Rivers, Virginia Lovers, If You Want Me To Stay, The Watery Part of the World, All I Have In This World, Prairie Fever, and I Am the Light of This World – and three collections of stories, The Geographical Cure; Don’t Make Me Stop Now; and Everything, Then and Since.
JENNIFER WHITAKER is the author of The Blue Hour, winner of the Brittingham Prize and published from the University of Wisconsin Press in 2016. Her poems have appeared in journals including Radar Poetry, New England Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Four Way Review. Originally from Midlothian, Virginia, Jennifer earned her MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is an assistant poetry editor at storySouth. She currently lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, where she is Director of the University Writing Center at UNCG.
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