Contact information
Name:
Megan Fernandes
Email:
fernanmk@lafayette.edu
Categories:
When:
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 - 4:10pm - 5:30pm
Where:
Kirby 104
Presenter:
Donika Kelly
Price:
Free
*Please note the time has been changed for this event from 7pm to 4:10pm*
Donika Kelly is the author of THE RENUNCIATIONS (Graywolf 2021) and BESTIARY (Graywolf). BESTIARY is the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry, and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The collection was also long listed for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for a Publishing Triangle Award and a Lambda Literary Award. A Cave Canem graduate fellow and member of the collective Poets at the End of the World, Donika has also received a Lannan Residency Fellowship, and a summer workshop fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center. Her poems have been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic online, The Paris Review, and Foglifter. She currently lives in Iowa City and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa, where she teaches creative writing.
Sponsored by:
Department of English and the Office of Intercultural Development