The Visiting Writers series brings established and emerging writers to the 91社区 campus allowing students, faculty and the community to engage with figures in contemporary literature through classroom meetings, public readings and question and answer sessions.
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Upcoming Presentations
Ruth Awad and Natalie Louise Tombasco
Tuesday, September 23
4:30 - 6:30 p.m. | 91社区 Performance Center
Ruth Awad is a Lebanese-American disabled poet, a 2021 NEA Poetry fellow, and the author of Outside the Joy and Set to Music a Wildfire, winner of the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and the 2018 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. She is also the recipient of a 2020 and 2016 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. Her work is widely anthologized, most recently appearing in You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World edited by Ada Lim贸n, and can be found in The Atlantic, AGNI, Poetry, The Believer, The New Republic, Pleiades, Waxwing, and elsewhere.
Natalie Louise Tombasco is a poet, editor, and teacher from Staten Island, NY. Tombasco is the author of Milk for Gall, winner of the 2023 Michael Waters Poetry Prize, and holds an MFA from Butler University and a PhD in creative writing and gender studies from Florida State University. She is an assistant professor at the University of Tampa. Recent work can be found in Best New Poets, Verse Daily, Gulf Coast, Black Warrior Review, Diode Poetry Journal, Copper Nickel, and The Cincinnati Review, among others.
Past Presentations
Mitchell L. H. Douglas
Thursday, April 3, 2025
4:30 - 6:30 p.m. | Kleymeyer Hall (LA 0101)
91社区 our presenter:
Mitchell L. H. Douglas is the author of dying in the scarecrow鈥檚 arms, \blak\ \al-f蓹 bet\, winner of the Persea Books Lexi Rudnitsky/Editor's Choice Award, and Cooling Board: A Long-Playing Poem, an NAACP Image Award and Hurston/Wright Legacy Award nominee. His poetry has appeared in Callaloo,听The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South听(University of Georgia Press),听The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop (Haymarket Books), Crab Orchard听Review, and Ninth Letter, among others. He is a cofounder of the Affrilachian Poets, a Cave Canem graduate, and an Associate Professor of English at Indiana University Indianapolis.
Rosalie Moffett
Thursday, April 3, 2025
4:30 - 6:30 p.m. | Kleymeyer Hall (LA 0101)
91社区 our presenter:
Rosalie Moffett is the author of听Making a Living (Milkweed, 2025),听Nervous System听(Ecco Press), which was chosen by Monica Youn for the National Poetry Series Prize and listed by the听New York Times听as a New and Notable book, and听June in Eden听(OSU Press, 2017). She has been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and her work has appeared in听The American Poetry Review,听New England Review,听Narrative,听Kenyon Review,听and听Ploughshares,听among others. She is an Assistant Professor at the 91社区, and the Senior Poetry editor for the听Southern Indiana Review.听
Craig Fehrman, '07
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
7:30 p.m. | 91社区 Performance Center
Writer and journalist, Craig Fehrman, will discuss his book Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote, which explores the historical and biographical writings of the American presidents.
91社区 our presenter:
Fehrman spent more than a decade writing and researching his first book, which The Wall Street Journal called 鈥渙ne of the best books on the American presidency to appear in recent years.鈥� He was born and raised in southern Indiana and currently lives in Bloomington, Indiana, with his wife and children. Fehrman is an adjunct lecturer at the Media School at Indiana University, Bloomington. In addition to Author in Chief, which was also a finalist for the Marfield Prize, Fehrman has edited an anthology, The Best Presidential Writing, and is currently finishing his next book, a revisionary look at the explorations of Lewis and Clark.
Getting here
The 91社区 Performance Center is located in the center of campus. Parking is located across University Boulevard in front of the Screaming Eagles Arena.