Ithaca College

The School of Humanities and Sciences and the Department of Writing are pleased to present poet Major Jackson, essayist Eula Biss, and novelist Sarah Shun-lien Bynum as part of this semester’s Distinguished Visiting Writers Series. They will be reading at 7:30pm on February 22nd, March 9th, and April 13th, respectively. The readings are free and open to the public.

Major Jackson is the author of three collections of poetry: Holding Company, Hoops, and Leaving Saturn, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2002. He is the Richard Dennis Green and Gold Professor at University of Vermont and the poetry editor of the Harvard Review. His reading will take place at 7:30pm on Tuesday, February 22nd in Clark Lounge, Campus Center.

Eula Biss is the author of two works of nonfiction, The Balloonists and Notes from No Man’s Land, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. She is currently an Artist in Residence at Northwestern University. She will read from her work at 7:30pm on Wednesday, March 9th in Clark Lounge, Campus Center.

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is the author of two novels, Ms. Hempel Chronicles, a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award, and Madeleine Is Sleeping, a finalist for the 2004 National Book Award. She was recently named one of “20 Under 40” fiction writers by The New Yorker. Her reading will take place at 7:30pm on Wednesday, April 13th in Klingestein Lounge, Campus Center.

In addition to giving a reading, all three Distinguished Visiting Writers will contribute to teaching a 1-credit master class to Ithaca College students. Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Jack Wang at 607-274-3493 or wang@ithaca.edu. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.