Please join the Creative Writing Program for three days of talks and readings by renowned writers Victoria Chang, Sabrina Imbler, and T Kira Māhealani Madden.
Each day, one writer will give a craft talk from 3:30 to 4:30, then another writer will give a reading from 5:00 to 6:00. All events are free and will take place in Deering Library 208.
Poet Victoria Chang’s most recent book of poems, Tree of Knowledge was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the U.S. and Corsair/Little Brown in the U.K. Her book of poems, With My Back to the World, was published in 2024 and received the Forward Prize in Poetry for Best Collection. A few of her other books include The Trees Witness Everything, OBIT, and Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief. She has written several children’s books as well, such as Eureka. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Chowdhury International Prize in Literature, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She is the Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech and Director of Poetry@Tech.
Nonfiction author Sabrina Imbler is a staff writer for Defector, where they write about non-human life. Their memoir How Far the Light Reaches won a Los Angeles Times book prize in science and technology and their chapbook Dyke (geology) was selected for the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature Program.
Fiction author T Kira Māhealani Madden (she/her) is a diasporic Kanaka ‘Ōiwi (Native Hawaiian) writer and author of the novel Whidbey, forthcoming with Mariner in winter 2026. Her memoir, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and the Lambda Literary Award. She is the Founding Editor of No Tokens, a magazine of literature and art, and has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Hedgebrook, Tin House, MacDowell, and Yaddo. Winner of the 2021 Judith A. Markowitz Award, she served as the Distinguished Writer in Residence at University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and currently teaches at Hamilton College as an assistant professor in Creative Writing and Indigenous literatures.
Cost: Free.
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