This Thursday, March 1st, two doctoral alumni of our Creative Writing Program will return to Tech for a reading in ENGL/PHIL 001 at 8 p.m. Michael Shewmaker is the author of Penumbra (Ohio UP, 2017) and Sarah Viren is the author of Mine (The University of New Mexico Press, 2018). A Q&A and book signing will follow the reading.
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About Michael Shewmaker
Michael Shewmaker is the author of Penumbra (Ohio UP, 2017), which won the 2016 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. His poems appear or are forthcoming in Best American Poetry, Narrative, Oxford American, Virginia Quarterly Review, Yale Review, and elsewhere. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, he is a Jones Lecturer in poetry at Stanford University.
About Sarah Viren
Sarah Viren is a writer, translator, and former newspaper journalist. Her book, Mine, won the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize, judged by Andre Dubus III, and essays from the collection have been recognized by the Best American Essays series, The Pinch journal's creative nonfiction prize, and the Kerouac House Writing Residency program, among other honors. An assistant professor at Arizona State University, she holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and a PhD from Texas Tech University.
