Ithaca College

The School of Humanities and Sciences and the Department of Writing are pleased to welcome acclaimed writers Kevin Young, D.T. Max, and Victor LaValle as part of this semester’s Distinguished Visiting Writers Series.

They will be reading at 7:30pm on September 17th, October 8th, and November 12th, respectively. The readings are free and open to the public.

Kevin Young is the author of the poetry collections Book of Hours; Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels; Dear Darkness; For the Confederate Dead; Black Maria; Jelly Roll: A Blues, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award; and To Repel Ghosts: Five Sides in B Minor, a finalist for the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. Young was a National Poetry Series winner for Most Way Home. Young is also the author of The Grey Album, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and the PEN Open Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. He is currently Atticus Haygood Professor of Creative Writing and English at Emory University in Georgia. His reading will take place at 7:30pm on Wednesday, September 17th in Clark Lounge, Egbert Hall.

D.T. Max is the author of Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace, a New York Times bestseller; and The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery. He is a graduate of Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. He will read from his work at 7:30pm on Wednesday, October 8th in Klingenstein Lounge, Egbert Hall.

Victor LaValle is the author of the short story collection Slapboxing with Jesus, which won the PEN Open Book Award; three novels, The Ecstatic, Big Machine, and The Devil in Silver; and an ebook only novella, Lucretia and the Kroons. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including a Whiting Writers’ Award, a United States Artists Ford Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the key to Southeast Queens. He graduated with a degree in English from Cornell and an M.F.A. from Columbia. He is an Assistant Professor and the Acting Fiction Director at the Columbia University School of the Arts in New York City. His reading will take place at 7:30pm on Wednesday, November 12th in Clark Lounge, Egbert Hall.

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 Eleanor Henderson at 274-3324 or ehenderson@ithaca.edu We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.