2024-2025 Visiting Writers Series
Sponsored by the Colorado College English Department with the support of the MacLean Visiting Writers Endowment. All events are free and open to the public.
We are currently working on the 2024-2025 list of Visiting Writers. Please check back soon.
Block One
Rebecca F. Kuang
September 6, 2024 7:00 PM
Celeste Theatre in Cornerstone Arts Space
Block Two
Maria Kelson
September 26, 2024 7:00 PM
Gaylord Hall
Maria Kelson has two collections of poetry (as Maria Melendez) with University of Arizona Press, which were finalists for the PEN Center USA Literary Award and the Colorado Book Award. Not the Killing Kind is her debut novel. It received the inaugural Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Crime Fiction Writers of Color from Sisters in Crime.
A former Santa Fe Arts Institute and Hedgebrook resident, she has given readings and workshops at campuses and literary festivals around the U.S. and served as an American Voices arts envoy in Bogotá, Colombia. Born in Arizona, raised in northern California, she has lived in one southeastern, three midwestern, and five western states. Connect at mariakelson.com.
Rigoberto González
This event has been cancelled.
Rigoberto González is the author of 18 books of poetry and prose. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and United States Artists. Other honors include the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Most recently, he edited the newly released Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology, a landmark anthology that brings together more than 180 poets whose poems bear witness to the beauty and power of this vital and expanding tradition. He is currently a distinguished professor of English and director of the MFA creative writing program at Rutgers University–Newark.
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