Ithaca College

The School of Humanities and Sciences and the Department of Writing are pleased to present readings by three acclaimed authors in the Spring 2016 Distinguished Visiting Writers Series: poet Vijay Seshadri, memoirist Abigail Thomas, and fiction writer Percival Everett.

Seshadri, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, will kick off the DVW series with a reading from his award-winning book at 7:30pm on Thursday, February 11th in Clark Lounge in Campus Center. The reading is free and open to the public. A question-and-answer period and book-signing will follow.

Vijay Seshadri is the author of three collections of poetry: 3 Sections (Graywolf), which was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; The Long Meadow, which won the James Laughlin Award, and Wild Kingdom. Seshadri has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, and has been awarded the Paris Review’s Bernard F. Conners Long Poem Prize and the MacDowell Colony’s Fellowship for Distinguished Poetic Achievement. The New Yorker has called him “a son of Frost by way of Ashbery.” Born in Bangalore, India, Seshadri currently teaches prose and nonfiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn.

For more information about the Distinguished Visiting Writers Series or to request special accommodations, contact Eleanor Henderson at 274-3324 or ehenderson@ithaca.edu. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.