Hartwick College Announces the Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 Visiting Writer Series
In the coming months, the 2024-25 Visiting Writers Series will bring a talented group of authors to engage the Hartwick College community with select readings from their work.
The series kicks off Wednesday, Sept. 25, with Bradley J. Fest, associate professor of English and the 2022-25 Cora A. Babcock Chair in English at Hartwick College. Fest will read from his third book of poetry , 2013-2017:Sonnets, which was just published by LJMcD Communications and is the first volume of his American sonnet sequence. Fest is also the author of two previous volumes of poetry, The Rocking Chair (Blue Sketch, 2015) and The Shape of Things (Salò, 2017), along with several essays on contemporary literature and culture, which have been published in boundary 2, CounterText, Critique, Genre, Scale in Literature and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), and elsewhere.
Hartwick College staff writer Libby Cudmore wraps up the fall portion of the series on Wednesday, Nov. 13, with a reading from her latest novel, Negative Girl (Datura, 2024). Cudmore also authored The Big Rewind (William Morrow, 2016) and the Wade and Jacks series in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and Tough. Her short fiction has been published in The Dark, HAD, MonkeyBicycle, Smokelong Quarterly, and elsewhere.
In the spring, Hartwick College will host Amish Trivedi on Thursday, April 10. Trivedi is the author of three books of poetry, most recently FuturePanic (Co•Im•Press, 2021), numerous chapbooks (primarily from above/ground press in Ottawa), and poems in places such as Denver Quarterly, The American Poetry Review, and Kenyon Review Online. He is currently working on a monograph tentatively titled A Wing in a Crumbling Mansion: Poetry in the Posthistorical University. Trivedi is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at the University of Delaware.
All the readings, presented by the Department of Literature Media and Writing, and the Visiting Writers Series at Hartwick College, are free and open to the public. Readings begin at 7 p.m. in Eaton Lounge, Bresee Hall.
For more information, please contact Associate Professor of English Bradley J. Fest at festb@hartwick.edu or 607-431-4921.
