**New Writer’s Award Winner**

                                        September 6, 2011                                           
8:00 p.m.

Barney-Davis Board Room

 

 

 

**Poet**

September 13, 2011

8:00 p.m.

Barney-Davis Board Room

 

 

 

**Poet**

October 11, 2011

4:30 p.m.

Barney-Davis Board Room

 

**Nonfiction Author/Poet**

 November 8, 2011

8:00 p.m.

Herrick Hall Auditorium

 

 

 

**Author/Assistant Professor of English**

November 30, 2011

4:30 p.m.

Barney-Davis Board Room

 

 

 

Goldie Goldbloom - Born in Western Australia, GLCA award-winning novelist and short story writer Goldie Goldbloomnow lives in Chicago with her eight children and a cat. She has worked for close to twenty years as both a high school and elementary school teacher as well as a librarian. Her collection of short stories, You Lose These and Other Stories, was published by Fremantle Press with individual stories appearing in such magazines as: Narrative, StoryQuarterly, and Prairie Schooner. Her novel, The Paperbark Shoe (Picador Press), won both the AWP Novel Award (2008) and the Great Lakes College Association’s New Writer’s Award (2011), and has been translated into French. 

 

Derek Mong was the 2008-2010 Axton Fellow in Poetry at the University of Louisville, where he taught literature, creative writing, and hosted “The Soul That Grows in Darkness: The Axton Festival of Film and Verse.”  From 2006-2007 he was the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has previously taught at the University of Michigan, SUNY-Albany, and with young writer’s workshops at Kenyon College and Denison University, his alma mater. He holds an MFA from The University of Michigan. In the fall of 2010 he began a PhD in English Literature at Stanford University. His awards include The Missouri Review’sJeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Choice Prize, two Pushcart nominations, Alehouse’s Happy Hour Poetry Award, and two Hopwood Prizes. His poems, translations, and prose have appeared in The Southern Review, Crazyhorse, The Kenyon Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, TriQuarterly, Colorado Review, Court Green, and Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes. In 2011 Saturnalia Books published his debut collection, Other Romes. Born in Portland, Oregon, and raised outside of Cleveland, Ohio, he lives with his wife, the translator Anne O. Fisher, in San Francisco. Together they are translating the selected poems of Maxim Amelin (Russian, b. 1970).  This project, tentatively titled The Joyous Science, was awarded a 2010 NEA grant for Literary Translation. 

 

Poet Debra Allbery is the Director of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. She holds a BA from The College of Wooster, an MA from the University of Virginia, and the MFA from the University of Iowa. Her many awards include the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, a “Discovery” The Nation Poetry Award, Ohio Poet of the Year, and two NEA Fellowships. Her first book, Walking Distance, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press; her most recent collection, Fimbul-Winter, won the Grub Street National Book Prize in Poetry. Individual poems have appeared in The Nation, Yale Review, Kenyon Review, Poetry, Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, Western Humanities Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Missouri Review, and Southern Review, among other journals.

 

Gretel Ehrlich is the author of thirteen books, including three books of narrative essays, a novel, a memoir, three books of poetry, a biography, a book of ethnology/travel, and a children’s book, among others. They include: The Solace of Open Spaces; Heart Mountain; Islands, The Universe, Home; A Match to the Heart; Questions of Heaven; A Blizzard Year; John Muir, A Biography; The Future of Ice, and In the Empire of Ice. She has published in Harper’s, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, Time, Life, National Geographic Magazine, Architectural Digest, and Orion, among many others. Her work has been anthologized in Best Essays of the Century, Best Spiritual Essays, Best Travel Essays, The Nature Reader, Nature Writing, and others. Ehrlich is the winner of many awards, among them the 2010 PEN Thoreau Award, a Bellagio Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, the Harold B. Vurcell Award for Distinguished Prose from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and two Expedition Council Grants from the National Geographic Society for circumpolar travel in the high Arctic. Ehrlich’s newest book, In the Empire of Ice, focuses on indigenous Arctic Peoples around the top of the world in a changing climate. Ehrlich has spent much of the last sixteen years traveling in Greenland and the Arctic.

Peter Grandbois is the author of the novel The Gravedigger, a Barnes and Noble “Discover Great New Writers” and Borders’ “Original Voices” selection, and The Arsenic Lobster: A Hybrid Memoir, chosen as one of the top five memoirs of 2009 by the Sacramento News and Review, as well as the recently released novel, nahoonkara, nominated for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. His short stories have appeared in numerous journals and have been shortlisted for a Pushcart Prize. He teaches at Denison University and can be reached at www.brothersgrandbois.com.