
Colorado College continues its acclaimed Visiting Writers Series this fall with an outstanding line-up of authors.The Visiting Writers Series, which has brought more than 225 authors - both established and emerging - to campus since its inception, celebrates a wide variety of genres, ranging from poetry to short stories to non-fiction as well as blended and hybrid genres.
"It is essential that we create a space on campus to interact with contemporary writers," says CC Assistant Professor of English and fiction writer Natanya Ann Pulley, who is one of the coordinators of the series, along with English Department faculty members Steve Hayward, Jane Hilberry, and Sylvan Goldberg.
Among those coming to campus during Blocks 1-4 are Pulitzer Prize poetry finalist Diane Seuss, award-winning journalist Helen Thorpe, and award-winning Diné (Navajo) poet and multimedia artist Esther G. Belin. Visiting writers Seuss, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, and Ramona Ausubel will be teaching blocks in the creative writing track as well.
"The
literary
world
is
more
than
readers
and
writers,
more
than
an
audience
and
truth-speakers
or
world-builders.
It's
about
participating
as
a
citizen
in
a
literary
community
that
is
changing
daily
and
taking
on
volatile
and
critical
topics
in
every
genre,"
says
Pulley.
"We
invite
our
community
to
engage
in
the
arts
through
an
embodied
experience
-
attuned
to
the
rhythms
of
voice
and
stillness,
the
sensory
impact,
and
for
those
moments
when
our
blood
and
skin
respond
a
tiny
second
before
our
thoughts
and
emotions.
We
offer
opportunities
to
ask
our
visitors
questions,
learn
from
them
in
craft
talks
and
class
visits,
and
to
imagine
creativity
as
a
communal
engagement.
We
also
want
our
students,
faculty,
and
staff
to
hear
about
the
journey,
the
obstacles,
and
the
negotiations
of
positionality
and
identity
within
the
publishing
market
that
writers
and
poets
experience.
By
seeking
and
supporting
diverse
voices
and
styles
as
well
as
writers
at
every
stage
of
their
career
and
from
a
multitude
of
backgrounds,
we
hope
to
build
a
thriving
and
dynamic
literary
community
at
Colorado
College
and
for
Colorado
Springs,"
she
says.
Here's
the
lineup
for
the
fall
Visiting
Writers
Series:
Tuesday,
Sept.
11:
Julia
Dixon
Evans
Julia
Dixon
Evans
is
the
author
of
the
novel
"How
to
Set
Yourself
on
Fire."
Her
work
can
be
found
or
is
forthcoming
in
McSweeney's,
Paper
Darts,
New
York
Tyrant
/
Tyrant
Books,
Barrelhouse,
San
Diego
CityBeat,
and
elsewhere.
She
is
the
founding
editor
and
host
of
Last
Exit,
a
new
literary
journal,
reading,
and
workshop
series.
She
also
serves
as
senior
columns
editor
for
The
Coil
and
is
nonfiction
editor
for
Noble
Gas
Qrtrly.
She
was
a
2014
PEN
in
the
Community
resident,
a
program
of
PEN
America
that
brings
professional
writers
into
underserved
schools
and
communities,
and
taught
creative
writing
to
ARTS'
TranscenDANCE
youth
dancers.
She
also
is
the
former
program
director
and
editor
for
So
Say
We
All,
a
literary
nonprofit.
She
lives
in
San
Diego.
7
p.m.,
McHugh
Commons,
1090
N.
Cascade
Ave.
Thursday,
Sept.
27:
Diane
Seuss
Diane
Seuss
is
the
author
of
three
poetry
collections,
including
"Wolf
Lake,"
"White
Gown
Blown
Open,"
winner
of
the
Juniper
Prize
for
Poetry,
and
"Four-Legged
Girl,"
which
was
a
finalist
for
the
2016
Pulitzer
Prize
in
Poetry.
The
New
York
Times
Book
Review
calls
her
newest
volume,
"Still
Life
with
Two
Dead
Peacocks
and
a
Girl,"
a
"marvelous,
complex,
attractive,
frightening
book."
Her
work
has
appeared
in
The
New
Yorker,
Poetry,
Brevity,
and
The
Missouri
Review,
as
well
as
"The
Best
American
Poetry"
(2014).
7
p.m.,
Gaylord
Hall,
Worner
Campus
Center,
902
N.
Cascade
Ave.
Tuesday,
Oct.
2:
Helen
Thorpe
Helen
Thorpe
is
an
award-winning
journalist
who
lives
in
Denver.
Her
journalism
has
appeared
in
The
New
York
Times
Magazine,
The
New
Yorker,
Texas
Monthly,
and
5280.
Her
most
recent
book,
"The
Newcomers:
Finding
Refuge,
Friendship,
and
Hope
in
an
American
Classroom,"
is
the
2018
Pikes
Peak
Library
District
All
Pikes
Peak
Read
selection.
Says
The
New
York
Times
Book
Review
of
her
new
book,
"A
delicate
and
heartbreaking
mystery
story...
Thorpe's
book
is
a
reminder
that
in
an
era
of
nativism,
some
Americans
are
still
breaking
down
walls
and
nurturing
newcomers,
the
seeds
of
the
great
American
experiment."
Sponsored
by
the
Pikes
Peak
Library
District.
3
p.m.,
Gates
Common
Room,
third
floor
of
Palmer
Hall,
1025
N.
Cascade
Ave.
Tuesday,
Oct.
9:
Juan
J.
Morales
Juan
J.
Morales
is
the
son
of
an
Ecuadorian
mother
and
Puerto
Rican
father.
He
is
the
author
of
three
poetry
collections,
including
"Friday
and
the
Year
That
Followed,"
"The
Siren
World,"
and
"The
Handyman's
Guide
to
End
Times."
His
poetry
has
appeared
in
CSPAN2,
Copper
Nickel,
Crab
Orchard
Review,
Hayden's
Ferry
Review,
Pleiades,
Poetry
Daily,
and
others.
He
is
a
CantoMundo
Fellow,
a
Macondista,
the
editor
and
publisher
of
Pilgrimage
Press,
and
department
chair
of
English
and
World
Languages
at
Colorado
State
University-Pueblo.
7
p.m.,
McHugh
Commons,
1090
N.
Cascade
Ave.
Thursday,
Nov.
8:
Esther
G.
Belin
Esther
G.
Belin
is
an
award-winning
Diné
(Navajo)
poet
and
multimedia
artist.
She
is
a
graduate
of
the
University
of
California,
Berkeley,
the
Institute
of
American
Indian
Arts,
and
Antioch
University.
Her
writing
has
appeared
in
outlets
including
Wicazo
Sa
Review,
BOMB,
Democracy
Now!,
and
Studies
in
American
Indian
Literatures.
She
considers
the
following
locations
her
homeland:
Los
Angeles;
Durango,
Colorado;
and
Diné
bike'yah.
Her
writing
and
art
grow
from
and
are
an
offering
to
the
collective
humanity,
bila'
ashdla'ii.
Sponsored
by
the
NEH
Professorship.
7
p.m.,
McHugh
Commons,
1090
N.
Cascade
Ave.
Monday,
Dec.
3:
Ramona
Ausubel
and
Kathryn
Kuitenbrouwer
Ramona
Ausubel
is
the
author
of
two
novels
and
two
story
collections.
Her
most
recent
book,
"Awayland,"
was
a
New
York
Times
Editors'
Choice
selection.
She
also
is
the
author
of
"Sons
and
Daughters
of
Ease
and
Plenty,"
"No
One
is
Here
Except
All
of
Us,"
and
"A
Guide
to
Being
Born."
She
is
the
recipient
of
the
PEN/USA
Fiction
Award,
the
Cabell
First
Novelist
Award
and
was
a
finalist
for
the
New
York
Public
Library
Young
Lions
Award.
Her
work
has
appeared
in
The
New
Yorker,
The
New
York
Times,
Tin
House,
One
Story,
Ploughshares
and
many
other
journals.
Kathryn
Walsh
Kuitenbrouwer
is
the
bestselling
author
of
the
novels
"All
the
Broken
Things,"
"Perfecting,"
and
"The
Nettle
Spinner."
Her
short-story
collection
"Way
Up"
won
a
Danuta
Gleed
Award
and
was
a
finalist
for
the
ReLit
Award.
Kuitenbrouwer's
recent
short
fiction
has
been
published
in
Granta,
The
Walrus,
Maclean's,
Joyland,
7X7
LA,
and
Storyville.
She
is
an
instructor
with
the
University
of
Toronto's
School
of
Continuing
Studies,
associate
faculty
with
the
University
of
Guelph's
Creative
Writing
MFA,
and
she
works
on
creativity,
language,
and
enchantment
in
the
English
Department
at
the
University
of
Toronto.
7
p.m.,
Gaylord
Hall,
Worner
Campus
Center,
902
N.
Cascade
Ave.
Monday,
Dec.
10:
Stanley
Crawford
Stanley
Crawford
is
the
author
of
eight
novels,
among
which
is
"The
Log
of
the
S.S.
The
Mrs
Unguentine"
and
three
works
of
nonfiction
about
Northern
New
Mexico,
including
"A
Garlic
Testament:
Seasons
on
a
Small
New
Mexico
Farm."
Recent
novels
include
"Seed,"
"Intimacy,"
"The
Canyon,"
and
"Village."
An
NEA
Writing
Fellow
and
a
Lila
Wallace-Reader's
Digest
Writer's
Award
winner,
Crawford
has
held
residencies
at
the
MacDowell
Colony,
the
Bellagio
Study
Center,
and
Centrum
in
Port
Townsend,
Washington.
He
taught
at
the
Institute
of
American
Indian
Arts,
UMass/Amherst,
and
Colorado
College.
Sponsored
by
the
Hulbert
Center
for
Southwest
Studies.
7
p.m.,
Gaylord
Hall,
Worner
Campus
Center,
902
N.
Cascade
Ave.
The series is sponsored by the Colorado College Department of English with the support of the MacLean Visiting Writers Endowment and through co-sponsors such as the NEH Professorship, the Hulbert Center for Southwest Studies, the Journalist-in-Residence program, and The Press at Colorado College.