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Creative Writing Program

Visiting Writer Residencies

Each year the Creative Writing Program brings in two distinguished writers for residencies. During their stays, the writers give a public reading and lecture, and conduct individual conferences with students in the genre.

Past Visitors

In recent years our visiting writers have included Robert Pinsky, Deborah Eisenberg, Katha Pollit, Mark Doty, Lorrie Moore, Agha Shahid Ali, Mary Gaitskill, Rosanna Warren, Amy Bloom, Peter Ho Davies, Adam Zagajewski, Linda Gregerson, Elizabeth Strout, Naeem Murr, Susan Stewart, Edmund White, Pam Houston, and Carl Phillips.

October 17 - 21, 2007 | Bret Lott Fiction Residency

Reading: October 18, 2007 | 7:30 p.m. | Reynolds Alumni Center
Lecture:  October 19, 2007 | 4:00 p.m. | 104 Tate Hall
  Lecture: "Why Write Anyway?"

Bret LottBret Lott
Fiction Residency

Bret Lott is the author of the novels Jewel (an Oprah’s Books Club selection), Reed's Beach, A Stranger's House, and The Man Who Owned Vermont; the story collections How to Get Home and A Dream of Old Leaves; and the memoir Fathers, Sons, and Brothers. His stories and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals and magazines, among them, The Yale Review, The Iowa Review, the Chicago Tribune, and Story, and have been widely anthologized. Editor of The Southern Review, he teaches at the College of Charleston.
Photo Credit: Louisiana State University

March 12-16, 2008 | Heather McHugh Poetry Residency

Reading: March 13, 2007 | 7:30 p.m. | Reynolds Alumni Center
Lecture:  March 14, 2007 | 4:00 p.m. | location to be determined

Heather McHughHeather McHugh
Poetry Residency

Heather McHugh is the author of several books of poetry and literary essays, including The Father of the Predicaments; Shades, To the Quick, A World of Difference, and Dangers. In 1993, she published Hinge & Sign: Poems 1968-1993, which was a National Book Award finalist, winner of the Pollock/Harvard Book Review prize in 1994. She is the Milliman Writer-in-Residence at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Photo Credit: Nicole Capello