Reading: Thursday, September 25, 2025 – 7:30 pm – Visual Arts Center Auditorium Jaquira Díaz was born in Puerto Rico, she was raised between Humacao, Fajardo, and Miami Beach. She is the author of the forthcoming novel This Is the Only Kingdom and Ordinary Girls: A Memoir, winner of a Whiting Award and a Florida […]
Reading: Thursday, October 9, 2025 • 7:30 pm • Green Drawing Room, Main Building Mary Favret is Professor of English at John Hopkins University. Professor Favret has been teaching literature for over 30 years to undergraduate, graduate and continuing education students. Her research often considers how experiences that seem distant or beyond our grasp nevertheless […]
Reading: Thursday, October 30, 2025 • 7:30 pm • Green Drawing Room, Main Building Heather Christle is the author of In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf (Algonquin) and The Crying Book (Catapult), a New York Times Editor’s Choice, Indie Next selection, and national bestseller that was translated into eight languages, awarded […]
Reading: Thursday, November 13, 2025 • 7:30 pm • Hollins Room, Library Workshop: “Translation vs. Transliteration vs. Multilingual Texts” Friday, November 14, 2025 • 10:00 am – 12:00 pm • CLE Classroom, Library Crystal Hana Kim is the author of the critically acclaimed novels The Stone Home (2024), a finalist for the Maya Angelou Book […]
Reading: Thursday, February 12, 2026 • 7:30 pm • Green Drawing Room, Main Building Remica Bingham-Risher, a native of Phoenix, Arizona, is an alumna of Old Dominion University and Bennington College. She is a Cave Canem fellow and Affrilachian Poet. Among other journals, her work has been published in The New York Times, The Writer’s […]
Reading: Thursday, February 26, 2026 • 7:30 pm • Green Drawing Room, Main Building drea brown is a Hollins alumna, queer Black feminist poet-scholar whose writing has appeared in journals and anthologies such as Stand Our Ground: Poems for Marissa Alexander and Trayvon Martin, Smithsonian Magazine, Southern Indiana Review, Bellingham Review, and About Place Journal. […]
Reading: Thursday, April 23, 2026 • 7:30 pm • Green Drawing Room, Main Building Professor T.J. Anderson III was born in Guthrie, Oklahoma, and is a poet and musician. He is the author of several works, including t/here it is (Omnidawn Press, 2023), Devonte Travels the Sorry Route (Omnidawn Press, 2019), Cairo Workbook (Willow Books, […]