Ithaca College

The Department of Writing is proud to kick off its spring Handwerker Reading Series this Tuesday (2/20) at 6 p.m. in the Handwerker Gallery. Tuesday's reading will feature works across the genres by student and faculty writers. 

Read more about Tuesday's readers below.

Joan Marcus is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing specializing in memoir, fiction, and narrative nonfiction. Her essays and stories appear in The Sun, Fourth Genre, The Georgia Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Laurel Review, The Smart Set, and elsewhere. She is a two-time winner of the Constance Saltonstall grant for upstate New York writers. Still Life with Stelazine, her memoir-in-progress, tells the story of her artist mother's battles with mental illness and ALS.  

Elizabeth Charles is a senior writing major and anthropology minor at Ithaca College. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and has resided there for most of her life. Her literary influences include Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Elfriede Jelinek, and Arundhati Roy. 

Monica Chen is a senior at Ithaca College with a major in writing and minors in integrated marketing communications and honors. Her literary interests lie in poetry and short fiction. Her fiction has been published in Stillwater Magazine and The Mirror Magazine. She is currently putting together a collection of poetry, expanding on her senior project, which she worked on with Professor Christine Kitano.    

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Jacob White at jrwhite@ithaca.edu or (904) 501-9860. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.