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Item 2016 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Annie Liontas(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2016-01-18) Liontas, AnnieThis reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by Jeff Parker. Annie Liontas' debut novel, Let Me Explain You, was featured in The New York Times Book Review as Editor's Choice and was selected by the American Booksellers Association as a 2015 Indies Introduce Debut and Indies Next Title. She is the co-editor of the anthology, A Manner of Being: Writers on their Mentors, and the recipient of a grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.Item 2016 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Mikhail Iossel & Vanessa Blakeslee(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2016-01-12) Iossel, Mikhail; Blakeslee, VanessaThis reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by Jessica Anthony and Erica Dawson.Item 2016 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Stefan Kiesbye and Joe Oestreich(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2016-01-13) Kiesbye, Stefan; Oestreich, JoeThis reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by Jason Ockert and Alan Michael Parker.Item 2017 MFA Residency Readings: Donald Morrill(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2017-06-20) Morrill, DonaldThis seminar is a part of the MFA in Creative Writing residency. Donald Morrill is the Associate Dean, Graduate and Continuing Studies and Dana Professor of English at The University of Tampa. He is the author of four books of nonfiction, Impetuous Sleeper , The Untouched Minutes (River Teeth Nonfiction Prize), Sounding for Cool (American Library Association/AAUP “Best of the Presses” Award) and A Stranger’s Neighborhood . He is also the author of three volumes of poetry, Awaiting Your Impossibilities, With Your Back to Half the Day and At the Bottom of the Sky.Item 2017 MFA Residency Readings: Jensen Beach(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2017-06-20) Beach, JensenThis seminar is a part of the MFA in Creative Writing residency, with an introduction by MFA Director Erica Dawson. Jensen Beach is the author of two story collections, most recently Swallowed by the Cold (Graywolf). He holds an MFA in fiction from the Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as well as an MA and BA in English from Stockholm University. He teaches in the BFA program at Johnson State College, where he is the fiction editor at Green Mountains Review. He’s also a faculty member in the MFA Program in Writing & Publishing at Vermont College of Fine Arts. His writing has appeared recently in A Public Space, the Paris Review, and The New Yorker.Item 2017 MFA Residency Readings: John Capouya(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2017-06-17) Capouya, JohnThis seminar is a part of the MFA in Creative Writing residency. John Capouya specializes in teaching journalism and other forms of nonfiction writing at The University of Tampa. He was a working journalist in New York City for many years, including stints at Newsweek and SmartMoney magazines, and the newspapers New York Newsday and The New York Times. His most recent book is Florida Soul, a history of rhythm and blues music in the Sunshine State, published by the University Press of Florida.Item 2017 MFA Residency Readings: Rahul Mehta(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2017-06-22) Mehta, RahulThis seminar is a part of the MFA in Creative Writing residency. Rahul Mehta is the author of a novel No Other World (Harper, 2017), and a short story collection, Quarantine (HarperPerennial, 2011), which won a Lambda Literary Award and the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction. His short stories have appeared in the Kenyon Review, Epoch, The Sun, Noon, and the prize anthology New Stories from the South. His essays have appeared on the op-ed page of theNew York Times and in the New York Times Magazine, theInternational Herald Tribune, and Marie Claire India. Named to Out magazine’s “Out 100” list of inspiring individuals for 2011, Mehta lives in Philadelphia and teaches creative writing at the University of the Arts.Item 2017 MFA Residency Readings: Tommy Pico(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2017-06-18) Pico, TommyThis seminar is a part of the MFA in Creative Writing residency with an introduction by MFA Director Erica Dawson. Tommy “Teebs” Pico is author of IRL (Birds, LLC, 2016), Nature Poem (Tin House Books, 2017), Junk (forthcoming 2018 from Tin House Books), the zine series Hey, Teebs and the chapbook app absentMINDR (VerbalVisual 2014). He was the founder and editor in chief of birdsong, an antiracist/queer-positive collective, small press, and zine that published art and writing from 2008-2013. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now lives in Brooklyn where he co-curates the reading series Poets With Attitude (PWA) with Morgan Parker, co-hosts the podcast Food 4 Thot, and is a contributing editor at Literary Hub.Item 2018 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Juliana Gray and Stefan Kiesby(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2018-06-19) Gray, Juliana; Kiesby, StefanThis reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by MFA Director Dr. Erica Dawson and Associate Dean of Graduate and Continuing Studies Dr. Donald Morrill. Juliana Gray’s most recent poetry collection is Honeymoon Palsy (Measure Press 2017). She is also the author of Roleplay (Dream Horse Press 2012, winner of the Orphic Prize and the Eugene Paul Nassar Prize), and The Man Under My Skin (River City Publishing 2005), as well as the chapbook Anne Boleyn’s Sleeve (Winged City Chapbook Press 2013). Stefan Kiesbye's stories, essays and reviews have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly and in the Los Angeles Times. His first book, Next Door Lived a Girl, won the Low Fidelity Press Novella Award, and has been translated into German, Dutch and Spanish. Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone made EW’s Must List and was named one of the best books of 2012 by Slate editor Dan Kois.Item 2018 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Kazim Ali(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2018-06-14) Ali, KazimThis reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by MFA Director Dr. Erica Dawson. Poet, editor and prose writer Kazim Ali was born in the United Kingdom to Muslim parents of Indian, Iranian and Egyptian descent. He received a bachelor's and master's from the University of Albany-SUNY and an MFA from New York University. His books encompass several volumes of poetry, including Sky Ward, winner of the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry; The Far Mosque, winner of Alice James Books’ New England/New York Award; The Fortieth Day; All One’s Blue; and the cross-genre text Bright Felon. His novels include Quinn’s Passage and The Disappearance of Seth. Ali is an associate professor of creative writing and comparative literature at Oberlin College. His new book of poems, Inquisition, will be released in the Spring of 2018.Item 2018 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Mikhail Iossel and Jeff Parker(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2018-01-11) Iossel, Mikhail; Parker, JeffThis reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by MFA Director Dr. Erica Dawson and Stefan Kiesbye. ********** Mikhail Iossel, the founder and executive director of the Summer Literary Seminars International programs and professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal, is the author of Every Hunter Wants to Know, a collection of stories, and co-editor (with Jeff Parker) of the anthologies Amerika: Russian Writers View the United States and Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia. His stories have been published in literary magazines in the U.S. and abroad, translated in several foreign languages. ********** Jeff Parker is the author of several books including Where Bears Roam the Streets: A Russian Journal, the novel Ovenman, and the short story collection The Taste of Penny (Dzanc). He co-edited the anthologies Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia and Amerika: Russian Writers View the United States. He is the cofounder of the DISQUIET International Literary Program in Lisbon, and currently he’s on the faculty of the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was the founding director of the Low-Residency MFA at The University of Tampa.Item 2018 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Skip Horack(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2018-01-08) Horack, SkipThis reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by Kevin Moffett. Skip Horack is the author of the novel The Other Joseph (Ecco, 2015), as well as The Eden Hunter, which was a 2010 New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and The Southern Cross, winner of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference 2008 Bakeless Fiction Prize. His work has appeared in Oxford American, Epoch, The Southern Review, Narrative Magazine, and elsewhere. Horack is an associate professor at Florida State University.Item 2018 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Sonya Huber(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2018-06-15) Huber, SonyaThis reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by MFA Director Dr. Erica Dawson and Dr. David Gudelunas, Dean of the College of Arts and Letters. Sonya Huber’s new essay collection is called Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System. Her other books include Opa Nobody, Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir, The Evolution of Hillary Rodham Clinton, and The Backwards Research Guide for Writers. She teaches at Fairfield University and directs Fairfield’s Low-Residency MFA Program.Item 2018 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Tracy K. Smith(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2018-06-17) Smith, Tracy K.This reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by MFA Director Dr. Erica Dawson. In 2017, Tracy K. Smith was appointed the 22nd United States Poet Laureate. She is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Ordinary Light (Knopf, 2015) and three books of poetry. Her collection Life on Mars won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and was selected as a New York Times Notable Book. Duende won the 2006 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. The Body’s Question was the winner of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. She is the Roger S. Berlind ’52 professor in the humanities at Princeton University. Her most recent collection, Wade in the Water (2018), boldly ties America’s contemporary moment both to our nation’s fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting.Item 2019 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Jason Ockert and Jerrod Schwarz(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2019-06-20) Ockert, Jason; Schwarz, JerrodThis reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by Dr. Don Morrill. Jason Ockert is the author of Wasp Box, a novel, and two collections of short stories: Neighbors of Nothing and Rabbit Punches. He is the winner of the Dzanc Short Story Collection Contest, the Atlantic Monthly Fiction Contest and the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award. His work has appeared in journals and anthologies including New Stories from the South, Best American Mystery Stories, Oxford American, The Iowa Review and many others. He teaches writing at Coastal Carolina University and also teaches in the MFA program at The University of Tampa. Jerrod Schwarz teaches creative writing at The University of Tampa and STEM programs at the Glazer Children’s Museum. His poetry has appeared in print/online journals such as PANK, Entropy, Opossum, The Fem, Inklette and many more. Most recently, his erasure poetry was highlighted on New Republic and Poetry Foundation. His first chapbook (The Crop) was published by Rinky Dink Press in 2016. He finished his MFA in Creative Writing at UT in May 2017.Item 2019 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Jehanne Dubrow(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2019-06-14) Dubrow, JehanneThis reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by Sandra Beasley. Jehanne Dubrow reads from her book of poetry American Samizdat. Jehanne Dubrow is the author of seven books of poetry, including most recently, American Samizdat, and a book of creative nonfiction, throughsmoke: an essay in notes. Her previous poetry collections are Dots & Dashes, winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Award, The Arranged Marriage, Red Army Red, Stateside, From the Fever-World, and The Hardship Post. She has co-edited two anthologies, The Book of Scented Things: 100 Contemporary Poems about Perfume and Still Life with Poem: Contemporary Natures Mortes in Verse. Her eighth book of poems, Simple Machines, which was just selected as the winner of the Richard Wilbur Poetry Award, will be published by the University of Evansville Press in November 2019.Item 2019 MFA Lectores Reading Series: John Capouya and Ben Montgomery(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2019-06-15) Montgomery, Ben; Capouya, JohnThis reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by Dr. Don Morrill. John Capouya reads from his book Florida Soul: From Ray Charles to KC and the Sunshine Band. Ben Montgomery reads from his book The Man Who Walked Backward: An American Dreamer's Search for Meaning in the Great Depression. John Capouya is an author and professor of journalism and non-fiction writing at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida. During his career in journalism he worked at Newsweek, The New York Times, SmartMoney, and New York Newsday. He wrote the books Florida Blues, Gorgeous George, and Real Men Do Yoga. He has also written for various publications, including Sports Illustrated, Life, Tampa Bay Times, and Travel & Leisure. Ben Montgomery is the author of the New York Times bestseller Grandma Gatewood's Walk, which won the 2014 National Outdoor Book Award for History/Biography. An award-winning staff writer at the Tampa Bay Times, Montgomery was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2010.Item 2019 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Keetje Kuipers(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2019-06-17) Kuipers, KeetjeThis reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by Dr. Don Morrill. Keetje Kuipers reads from her book of poetry All Its Charms. Writer and editor Keetje Kuipers (pronounced Kay-tcha Ky-pers) is the author of three books of poems, all from BOA Editions. Her first book, Beautiful in the Mouth, was selected by Thomas Lux as the winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Named one of the top ten debut poetry books of 2010 by Poets & Writers, her first book also appeared in the top ten on the contemporary poetry bestseller list. Her second collection, The Keys to the Jail (2014), was a book club selection for The Rumpus, and her third book, All Its Charms (2019), includes poems honored by publication in both The Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies.Item 2019 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Kristen Arnett(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2019-06-19) Arnett, KristenThis reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by Dr. Don Morrill. Novelist Kristen Arnett reads from her book Mostly Dead Things. Kristen Arnett is the NYT bestselling author of the debut novel Mostly Dead Things (Tin House, '19). She is a queer fiction and essay writer. She was awarded Ninth Letter's Literary Award in Fiction and is a columnist for Literary Hub. Her work has appeared at North American Review, The Normal School, Gulf Coast, TriQuarterly, Guernica, Buzzfeed, Electric Literature, McSweeneys, PBS Newshour, Bennington Review, Tin House Flash Fridays/The Guardian, Salon, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Her story collection, Felt in the Jaw, was published by Split Lip Press and was awarded the 2017 Coil Book Award. She is a Spring 2020 Shearing Fellow at Black Mountain Institute.Item 2019 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Matthew Vollmer(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2019-06-18) Vollmer, MatthewThis reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by Kevin Moffett. Matthew Vollmer reads from his book Permanent Exhibit. Matthew Vollmer is the author of two collections of short fiction, Gateway to Paradise (Persea Books, 2015) and Future Missionaries of America (published by MacAdam Cage and Salt Modern Fiction, 2010), as well as inscriptions for headstones, a collection of essays (Outpost19, 2012). With David Shields, he is the co-editor of Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, “Found” Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts (W. W. Norton, 2012). Vollmer is also the editor of A Book of Uncommon Prayer, a volume of everyday invocations from over 60 writers, each of whom were charged with writing–regardless of their religious inclinations–a prayer. His fourth book, Permanent Exhibit, a collection of short prose, was published by BOA Editions Ltd. in the Fall of 2018. Vollmer’s work has appeared widely in magazines, including: Paris Review, Glimmer Train, The Sun, Virginia Quarterly Review, Epoch, Tin House and many others.