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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 22-25 | Rodger Kamentez Poetry and Nonfiction Residency

Lecture:  October 22, 2008 | 4:00 p.m. | 104 Tate Hall
Reading: October 23, 2008 | 7:30 p.m. | 106 Pickard Hall

Rodger Kamenetz
Poetry and Nonfiction Residency

Called “the most formidable of the Jewish-American poets,” Rodger Kamenetz’s five books of poetry include The Lowercase Jew. His nonfiction work includes the landmark international bestseller The Jew in the Lotus and the National Jewish Book Award-winning Stalking Elijah. His memoir, Terra Infirma, has been described as “the most beautiful book ever written about a mother and son.” Erich and Lea Sternberg Honors Professor at Louisiana State University, he is Founding Director of LSU’s MFA program in Creative Writing and the founding director of the Jewish Studies Program.

October 22-25 2008 | 7:30 p.m. Moira Crone Fiction Residency

Reading: October 23, 2008 | 7:30 p.m. | 106 Pickard Hall
Lecture:  October 24, 2007 | 4:00 p.m. | 104 Tate Hall

Moira Crone
Fiction Residency

Short story writer and novelist Moira Crone’s award-winning work has been widely anthologized. Her publications include What Gets Into Us; Dream State; A Period of Confinement and The Winnebago Mysteries and Other Stories. Her fiction has appeared in numerous venues including The New Yorker, North American Review, Ploughshares, Southern Review, Gettysburg Review, and New Orleans Review, among others. She has taught and served as director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Louisiana State University and is a former fiction series editor for the University Press of Mississippi.