The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program will concludes its Fall 2016 Writers in Camden series on Wednesday, November 30th, with readings by Jericho Brown and Rick Moody.
Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the National Endowment for the Arts. His poems have appeared in The New Republic, The New Yorker, and The Best American Poetry. His first book, Please (New Issues 2008), won the American Book Award, and his second book, The New Testament (Copper Canyon 2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was named one of the best books of the year by Library Journal, Coldfront, and the Academy of American Poets. He is an associate professor in English and creative writing at Emory University in Atlanta.
Rick Moody is the author of numerous novels, including Garden State, The Ice Storm, The Four Fingers of Death, The Diviners, and Purple America. Right Livelihoods, a book of three novellas, was published in 2007. His collections of short fiction include The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven and Demonology. The Black Veil: A Memoir with Digressions was a winner of the NAMI/Ken Book Award and the PEN Martha Albrand prize for excellence in the memoir. His collection of essays, On Celestial Music, was published in 2012. Moody is the recipient of the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Guggenheim fellowship.
The event will begin at 7 p.m. in the Campus Center’s Multi-Purpose Room. This event is free and open to the public.
The Writers in Camden series is sponsored by the MFA in Creative Writing Program and the National Endowment for the Arts. The series will begin its Spring 2017 season on Wednesday, January 25th, 2017, with readings by Melissa Fay Greene and Tyehimba Jess.