Meg Kearney

Poet Meg Kearney has cancelled her reading for Thursday, March 25 due to a family death. Visiting Writers Series organizers hope to reschedule this event later this semester or next fall.

Meg Kearney is Director of the Solstice Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Mass. She is also director of Pine Manor’s Solstice Summer Writers Conference.

Born in Manhattan, Meg served as associate director of the National Book Foundation in New York and taught poetry at the New School University. She was a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and a recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the New York Times. She’s won numerous awards in poetry and creative writing. Her most recent collection of poems is Home By Now. Her picture book, Trouper the Three-Legged Dog, is forthcoming in 2012 and will be illustrated by E.B. Lewis.

Hannah Tinti

Wednesday, April 7, 2010
7:30 PM Callen Conference Center, Smith-Curtis Administration Building

Hannah Tinti grew up in Salem, Mass., and is cofounder and editor-in-chief of One Story magazine. Her short story collection, Animal Crackers, has sold in 16 countries and was a runnerup for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her first novel, The Good Thief, is a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, recipient of the American Library Association’s Alex Award and winner of the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize. Hannah also recently won the 2009 PEN/Nora Magid Award for her editorial work at One Story.

Arthur Smith

Tuesday, April 13, 2010
7:30 PM Callen Conference Center, Smith-Curtis Administration Building

Arthur Smith is Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. His first book of poems, Elegy on Independence Day, was awarded the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and the Norma Farber First Book Award. His work has been honored with a “Discovery”/The Nation Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, and two Pushcart Prizes. His poems have appeared in numerous journals including The Nation, The New Yorker, Poetry, The Southern Review, Southern Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review and North American Review.