Ithaca College

The School of Humanities and Sciences and the Department of Writing are pleased to welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Schultz, National Book Award finalist in fiction Charles Baxter, and acclaimed essayist Jo Ann Beard as part of this semester’s Distinguished Visiting Writers Series. They will be reading at 7:30 p.m. on September 15, October 6, and October 28, respectively. The readings are free and open to the public.

Philip Schultz is the author of several collections of poetry, including Failure, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Partisan Review, the New Republic, the Paris Review, and Slate, among other magazines. He is the founder and director of the Writers Studio, a private school for fiction and poetry writing based in New York City. His reading will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 15, in Clark Lounge, Egbert Hall.

Charles Baxter is the author of two collections of essays on fiction, four collections of stories, and five novels, including The Feast of Love, nominated for the National Book Award in 2000. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He teaches at the University of Minnesota and will read from his work at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 6, in Clark Lounge, Egbert Hall.

Jo Ann Beard is the author of a collection of autobiographical essays, The Boys of My Youth, and a forthcoming novel. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Tin House, Best American Essays, and other magazines and anthologies. She received a Whiting Foundation Award and nonfiction fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her reading will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 28, in Klingenstein Lounge, Egbert Hall.

In addition to giving a reading, all three Distinguished Visiting Writers will contribute to teaching a one-credit master class to Ithaca College students. For more information about the series, contact Jack Wang at 607-274-3493 or wang@ithaca.edu.

Distinguished Visiting Writers Website