Posted on December 20, 2024
The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro will host a poetry and fiction reading by Liz Bruce and Bri Summey on Friday, February 21st at 6:00 PM at Scuppernong Books, 304 South Elm Street. A part of the MFA Writing Program’s 2025 Thesis Reading Series, the event is free and open to the public.
ELIZABETH ROSE BRUCE is a poet, creative nonfiction writer, and UNC Greensboro MFA candidate from Chattanooga, Tennessee whose work explores and queers the interior landscapes of identity, spirituality, mental health, and human relationships, across exterior landscapes of the American South. A finalist for the 2024 Dorianne Laux Prize for Poetry, and a recipient of a 2024 Residency Fellowship at the Eliot Summer House, Liz’s work has appeared in journals such as Arkana, Susurrus, and Global Poemic. Two of her poems will be featured in the anthology Objects in This Mirror, forthcoming from Press 53 this Spring. A recipient of a 2024-2025 Anna Wooten Hawkins Graduate Award in Creative Writing, Liz currently serves a poetry editor for The Greensboro Review.
BRIANNA SUMMEY is a second-year MFA student in fiction UNC Greensboro. She is from Madisonville, Tennessee, and has a Bachelor’s in English with a minor in Creative Writing from Berea College. A recipient of a 2024-2025 Kathy Walker Phipps Graduate Award in Creative Writing, Brianna currently serves as fiction editor for The Greensboro Review.
