The Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series Presents: Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Reading: Thursday, March 16
Atherton Union Reilly Room, 7:30 PM

Student Q&A: Thursday, March 16
Efroymson Center for Creative Writing, 2:25 PM

Gabrielle Calvocoressi is a poet and essayist whose most recent book, Apocalyptic Swing, was a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Award.  Her poems have been featured in The New York Times, Boston Review, The Washington Post, on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac and in numerous journals and are forthcoming in Poetry Magazine and At Length. She writes the Sports Desk column for The Best American Poetry blog and is on the advisory board of The Rumpus‘ Poetry Book Club.

She has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including The Paris Review‘s Bernard F. Conners Prize, a Rona Jaffe Woman Writers Award, a Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship from Stanford University, a Civitella di Ranieri Fellowship and Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship in Marfa, Texas. She sits on the poetry boards of The Rumpus and From the Fishouse. She is the Senior Poetry Editor for The Los Angeles Review of Books.

The Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series Presents: Emily St. John Mandel

Reading: Monday, February 20
Atherton Union Reilly Room, 7:30 PM

Student Q & A: Tuesday, February 21
Efroymson Center for Creative Writing, 9:30 AM

Emily St. John Mandel is the author of four novels, most recently Station Eleven, which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Toronto Book Award, and the Morning News Tournament of Books, and has been translated into 27 languages.

A previous novel, The Singer’s Gun, was the 2014 winner of the Prix Mystere de la Critique in France. Her short fiction and essays have been anthologized in numerous collections, including Best American Mystery Stories 2013. She is a staff writer for The Millions.

The Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series Presents: Marlon James

Reading: Monday, January 23
Schrott Center for the Arts, 7:30 PM
Student Q&A: Monday, January 23
Gallahue Room 105, 2:25 PM

Marlon James was born in Jamaica in 1970. His most recent novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings, won the 2015 Man Booker Prize. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for fiction, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction, and the Minnesota Book Award. It was also a New York Times Notable Book.

James is also the author of The Book of Night Women, which won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Minnesota Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction and an NAACP Image Award. His first novel, John Crow’s Devil, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice.