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A.E. Stringer Visiting Writers Series Reading, Featuring Donika Kelly and Melissa Febos
March 3, 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
National Book Critics Circle Finalists Donika Kelly and Melissa Febos will read in person at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, on Thursday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center.
Donika Kelly is the author of The Renunciations, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Bestiary. Bestiary is the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and a founding member of the collective Poets at the End of the World. Her poems have been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and Foglifter. She currently lives in Iowa City where she teaches creative writing in the English Department at the University of Iowa.
Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir Whip Smart and three essay collections: Abandon Me, a LAMBDA Literary Award finalist and Publishing Triangle Award finalist; Girlhood, a national bestseller and National Book Critics Circle finalist; and the forthcoming Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative. A recipient of the Jeanne Córdova Nonfiction Award from LAMBDA Literary and of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, Bread Loaf, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The BAU Institute, Vermont Studio Center, The Barbara Deming Foundation, and others; her essays have appeared in The Paris Review, The Believer, McSweeney’s Quarterly, Granta, The Yale Review, Tin House, The Sun, New York Review of Books, and The New York Times Magazine. She is an associate professor at the University of Iowa, where she teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program.