Feb. 9, 2022, 7:30 p.m. | Liberal Arts Building, McCue Auditorium

Writers Forum Presents: Steve Fellner

Steve Fellner’s books include two collections of poetry, Blind Date with Cavafy and The Weary World Rejoices, and a memoir, All Screwed Up.

Steve Fellner teaches at SUNY Brockport and has published in multiple genres. His books include two collections of poetry, Blind Date with Cavafy and The Weary World Rejoices, and a memoir, All Screwed Up. He is co-editor with Phil E. Young of the anthology Love Rise Up: Poems of Social Justice, Protest, and Hope. His latest book, Eating Lightbulbs, is a collection of essays.

Feb. 23, 2022, 7:30 p.m. | Liberal Arts Building, McCue Auditorium

CANCELED: Writers Forum Presents: Camille Guthrie

Camille Guthrie’s Writers Forum visit has been postponed until further notice.

Camille Guthrie’s Writers Forum visit has been postponed until further notice.

Camille Guthrie is the author of four books of poetry: Diamonds, Articulated Lair: Poems for Louise Bourgeois, In Captivity, and The Master Thief. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Boston Review, Green Mountains Review, The Iowa Review, The New Republic, and Tin House as well as TheBest American Poetry 2019 and 2020. Guthrie has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell and the Yaddo Foundation. She received her MFA from Brown University and her BA from Vassar College. The Director of the Undergraduate Writing Initiatives at Bennington College, she lives in rural Vermont.

March 9, 2022, 7:30 p.m. | Liberal Arts Building, McCue Auditorium

Writers Forum Presents: Terry Engel

Terry Engel holds a Ph.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi, and his work has won the Transatlantic Review Award and the Hemingway Days Short Story Writing Contest. He is the author of the novel Natchez at Sunset

A Mississippi native, Terry Engel studied Forest Resources at Mississippi State University and worked as quality control and production supervisor in particleboard mills and wood preservative treatment plants. He was a lineman building high voltage powerlines for the Tennessee Valley Authority, has worked with wolves at the Anchorage Zoo, and currently teaches writing at Harding University in Arkansas. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi, and his work has won the Transatlantic Review Award and the Hemingway Days Short Story Writing Contest.

March 30, 2022, 7:30 p.m. | Online

Writers Forum Presents: Yoon Choi

Yoon Choi’s debut story collection, Skinship, published by Alfred A. Knopf, was an NPR and Kirkus Best Book of 2021.

Yoon Choi was born in Korea and moved to the U.S. at the age of three. She has an MA from Johns Hopkins and is a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Her stories and essays have appeared in New England Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Narrative Magazine, and The Best American Short Stories 2018. She lives with her husband and four children in Anaheim, California. Her debut story collection, Skinship, published by Alfred A. Knopf, was an NPR and Kirkus Best Book of 2021.

To register for this free Zoom event, email Jim Whorton at jwhorton@brockport.edu

April 20, 2022, 7:30 p.m. | Brockport Downtown (REOC)

Writers Forum Presents: Jerald Walker

The 2022 Art of Fact Reading will feature Jerald Walker.

Along with the memoirs Street Shadows and The World in Flames, Jerald Walker is the author of How to Make a Slave and Other Essays, a 2020 Finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction. His work has appeared in publications such as The Harvard Review, Creative Nonfiction, The Iowa Review, and Mother Jones and has been widely anthologized, including five times in The Best American Essays series. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize, Walker is a Professor of Creative Writing and African American Literature at Emerson College.