Ithaca College

The Department of Writing's Handwerker Reading Series welcomes in spring with an hour of readings by faculty and student creative writers on Tuesday, April 3, at 6 p.m. in the Handwerker Gallery (Gannett Center).

Tuesday's event will feature readings by the following writers:

Noa Livernois is a genderqueer writing major and women’s and gender studies minor. They are a nonfiction editor for Stillwater, as well as the co-president of Spit That! and the lead poetry editor for States of Mind. They once bought a signed copy of Morning in the Burned House from a used bookstore for eight dollars, and it remains their proudest accomplishment to this day. 

Katharyn Howd Machan is the author of 37 collections of poetry (most recently Selected Poems and Secret Music: Voices from Redwing, 1888) and, now as a full professor, has taught Writing at IC since 1977. After many years of coordinating the Ithaca Community Poets and directing the Feminist Women’s Writing Workshops, Inc., she was selected to be Tompkins County’s first poet laureate. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines, anthologies, and textbooks, and she has edited three thematic anthologies.  

Raul Palma serves as fiction editor for Prairie Schooner. He is a diversity fellow at Ithaca College and a PhD candidate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Gargoyle, Rhino, Smokelong Quarterly, Sonora Review, and elsewhere.

Mirelle Tinker is a junior majoring in television with minors in writing and international business. She has written for Cecile's Writer's Magazine, IC Distinct, Mediaversity, The Tempest, The Ithaca Voice, and Darling Media. Additionally, she performed during Spit That!'s spring showcase "Body Language" in April, 2017. Currently, she works as a Media and Program Administration intern at Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. Her website is: mirelletinker.com.

Vanessa Zimmerman is a writing major with a double minor in English and psychology. She is an active member of SpitThat!, an on-campus spoken word organization, as well as IC’s branch of Active Minds, which promotes mental health advocacy. She hopes to one day become a college writing professor as well as a published poet and memoirist. Vanessa’s work has been published in Literature Today and Serendipity magazine.

Please stop by to celebrate the fine work of these writers.

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.