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MFA Creative Writing Program

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Mar 4, 2021 | 6:30 pm

Distinguished Writers Series - Marie Mutsuki Mockett

Marie Mutsuki Mockett's latest book, American Harvest, is set in seven agricultural and heartland states. It was published by Graywolf Press in 2020 and was a finalist for the Lukas Prize for Nonfiction under the former title A Kernel in God's Eye. Her memoir, Where the Dead Pause and the Japanese Say Goodbye, explores how […]

Mar 9, 2021 | 6:00 pm

Hunter@Home - Walking with Ghosts

Please join us for a special evening with Gabriel Byrne and Colum McCann as they discuss Byrne's highly anticipated memoir, Walking with Ghosts. As a young boy growing up in the outskirts of Dublin, Gabriel Byrne sought refuge in a world of imagination among the fields and hills near his home, at the edge of […]

Mar 16, 2021 | 5:30 pm

Distinguished Writers Series - Helen Macdonald

Helen Macdonald is best known for H is for Hawk, which won the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize and Costa Book Award. In 2016, it also won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger in France. Her other books include Shaler's Fish (2001), Falcon (2006), and her most recent, Vesper Flights (2020). Macdonald has written and narrated several radio programs, and appeared in the […]

Mar 23, 2021 | 6:30 pm

Distinguished Writers Series - Victoria Chang

Victoria Chang's fifth and most recent book of poems, OBIT, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2020. Her prior book of poems, Barbie Chang, was also published by Copper Canyon, in 2017. Her third book of poetry, The Boss, was published by McSweeney's in 2013 and won a PEN Center USA literary award and California Book Award. […]

Apr 8, 2021 | 6:30 pm

Distinguished Writers Series - Carl Phillips

Referred to as "one of America's most original, influential, and productive of lyric poets," Carl Phillips is the author of a dozen books of poetry and two works of criticism. His recent books of poetry are Pale Colors in a Tall Field (2020), Wild Is the Wind (2018), Reconnaissance (2015), Silverchest (2013, nominated for the Griffin Prize), Double Shadow (2011, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book […]

Oct 5, 2021 | 7:30 pm

Distinguished Writers Series - Phil Klay

Hunter alum and National Book Award Winner Phil Klay will be joining us virtually and in person for the Distinguished Writers Series at Hunter College. The LA Times describes Phil Klay's latest book, Missionaries, as "beautiful, violent and almost perfect." The New York Times Book Review gave this praise: "Klay's understanding of Colombia, the main […]

Oct 21, 2021 | 6:30 pm

Distinguished Writers Series - Greg Pardlo

Greg Pardlo's poetry collection Digest won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The Pulitzer judges cited his "clear voiced poems that bring readers the news from 21st Century America, rich with thought, ideas and histories public and private." Pardlo's book Totem won the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. His work has been praised for its "language […]

Nov 9, 2021 | 6:30 pm

Distinguished Writers Series - Bill Cheng

Celebrated Hunter alumnus Bill Cheng is best known for his novel, Southern Cross the Dog, which follows the story of a boy who survives the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and then spends several decades as a refugee, an abandoned orphan, and then an itinerant laborer. HarperCollins describes the book as "teeming with language that […]

Nov 16, 2021 | 6:30 pm

Distinguished Writers Series - Leslie Jamison

One of the most anticipated books of 2018, Leslie Jamison's The Recovering is a deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage that turns the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that recovery can be as electrifying as the train wreck itself. Jamison is also the bestselling author of The Empathy Exams for […]

Mar 8, 2022 | 7:30 pm

Distinguished Writers Series - Tom Sleigh

Tom Sleigh is the author of eleven books of poetry, including his most recent, The King's Touch, available from Graywolf Press in February 2022. Other works include Army Cats, winner of the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and Space Walk which won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Award. In addition, Far Side of the Earth won […]

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