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Jenny Offill<\/strong>
Thursday 9\/26 @7PM<\/strong>
Muskie Archives 201<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jenny Offill is the critically-acclaimed author of three books of fiction, including Dept. of Speculation<\/em> (Granta Books 2014), a New York Times<\/em> Top 10 Best Books of 2014. Her most recent book, Weather: A Novel<\/em> (Knopf 2020), was lauded by the Boston Globe<\/em> as \u201ctiny in size but immense in scope, radically disorienting yet reassuringly humane, strikingly eccentric and completely irresistible.\u201d Offill was the subject of a February 2020 feature in the New York Times Magazine<\/em>, \u201cHow to Write Fiction when the Planet is Falling Apart.\u201d Honors include a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, Guggenheim Fellowship, New York Film Academy Fellowship in Fiction, and resident fellowships at Macdowell Colony, Slovenian PEN Centre, and Yaddo. Offill has taught widely in MFA programs, and currently is the visiting writer at Bard College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Heidi Julavits
Wednesday 10\/30 @7pm
Muskie Archives 201<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heidi Julavits was born and raised in Portland, Maine, and moved to New York in 2003, where she\u2019s lived ever since. Initially a novelist, who wrote a total of four novels, the best of which is probably THE VANISHERS, she\u2019s since switched to nonfiction, and has published two memoirs\u2014THE FOLDED CLOCK and DIRECTIONS TO MYSELF\u2014as well as essays in magazines about topics such as avalanches, volcanoes, land art, and small town politics. She\u2019s currently working on a book about a dead French actress\u2019s estate she found on eBay, an art world scam artist, a \u201cnon-natural hill\u201d in Berlin, and end-of-life care. She is a founding co-editor of THE BELIEVER magazine, co-editor of the book WOMEN IN CLOTHES, and a professor at Columbia University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ru Freeman ’93
Thursday 11\/14 @4:30PM<\/strong>
Pettengill G52<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ru Freeman is a Sri Lankan and American writer, poet, and activist whose work appears internationally in English and in translation. She is the author of Bon Courage: Essays on Inheritance, Citizenship & A Creative Life<\/em> (2023), the short-story collection, Sleeping Alone<\/em> (2022), and the widely translated novels A Disobedient Girl<\/em> (2009) and On Sal Mal Lane<\/em> (2013), a New York Times Editor’s Choice Book. She is the editor of the anthology, Extraordinary Rendition: American Writers on Palestine <\/em>(2015) and co-editor of Indivisible: Global Leaders on Shared Security<\/em> (2018). She writes for the UK Guardian, the New York Times, and the Boston Globe. She is a winner of the Mariella Gable Award for Fiction, and the JH Kafka Prize for Fiction by an American Woman. She teaches creative writing in the US and abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Daniel Borzutzky
Thursday 03\/14 @7PM<\/strong>
Pettengill G21<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daniel Borzutzky is a poet and Spanish-language translator from Chicago. His most recent books are\u00a0The Murmuring Grief of the Americas<\/em>\u00a0(2024), and\u00a0Written After a Massacre in the Year <\/em>2018\u00a0<\/em>(2021). His 2016 collection,\u00a0The Performance of Becoming Human<\/em>,\u00a0received the National Book Award.\u00a0Lake Michigan<\/em>\u00a0(2018) was a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize.\u00a0His most recent translations are Cecilia Vicu\u00f1a\u2019s\u00a0The Deer Book<\/em>\u00a0(2024);\u00a0and Paula Ilabaca Nu\u00f1ez\u2019s\u00a0The Loose Pearl<\/em> (2022), winner of the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. His translation of Galo Ghigliotto’s\u00a0Valdivia\u00a0<\/em>received the American Literary Translator\u2019s Association\u2019s 2017 National Translation Award, and he has also translated collections by Ra\u00fal Zurita, and Jaime Luis Huen\u00fan. He teaches English and Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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