 Mike Czyzniejewski starts off the Visiting Writers Series at SUNY Fredonia on Thursday, Oct. 1. |
SUNY Fredonia's Visiting Writers Series, sponsored by the English Department, is hosting three writers making a name for themselves in the contemporary world of literature. This semester's program features fiction writer Mike Czyzniejewski, and poets Ross Gay and Patrick Rosal.
Funded by the Mary Louise White Fund of the Fredonia College Foundation, the series gives students and others the opportunity to hear writers give insights on their craft, as well as give live readings.
Czyzniejewski is the author of the collection of stories, Elephants in Our Bedroom. He teaches creative writing at Bowling Green University and works as editor-in-chief for the Mid-American Review. Aimee Bender, author of Willful Creatures, has described his work as “both wry-funny and absurd-funny, plunging into everyday and the outrageous.” She went on to call his work “a bouquet of bright and fun-to-read stories.” He will appear on campus Thursday, Oct. 1. His craft-talk and reading will take place at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. respectively, in McEwen 202.
Gay is the author of the collection of poems, Against Which. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Atlanta Review, Harvard Review, Columbia: A Journal of Poetry and Art, and Margie: The American Journal of Poetry, among other places. He teaches at Indiana University and in the low-residency program at New England College.
Rosal is the author of the collections, Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive (for which he won the 2003 Asian American Writers' Workshop Member’ Choice Award) and My American Kundiman (for which he won the 2006 Book Award in Poetry and the 2007 Global Filipino Literary Award). He was also awarded a Fulbright grant as a U.S. Scholar to the Philippines in 2009.
Both Rosal and Gay will appear together on campus Nov. 5, at 4 p.m. (craft talk) and 7 p.m. (reading) in McEwen 202.
