News Hartwick College’s Spring Visiting Writers Series Spotlights Fiction, Poetry

Two acclaimed authors will visit Hartwick this spring as part of the College’s 2022-23 Visiting Writers Series. The authors, which include a poet and a fiction writer, are “talented and represent diverse backgrounds and genres,” according to Bradley J. Fest, associate professor of literature, media and writing, and co-director of the Visiting Writers Series.

The visiting writers include:

• 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 12
  • Julian K. Jarboe is the author of the Lambda Award-winning collection, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel. Their fiction and poetry has appeared in Hypocrite Reader, Maudlin House, Nat. Brut, Uncanny Magazine and the SmokeLong Quarterly. Jarboe is also the author of the games Marshmallow Test, Inscrutable Cities, and Over Easy: A Diner Heist. They are currently working on a novel. 

• 7 p.m. Friday, April 28
  • Sten Carlson is the author of the chapbook, Lives of the Czars, written collaboratively with Robin Clarke. He is also the author of several chapbooks, including Fur & After, Fifteen False Propositions against Crowds, Climate Chorale, and several other “little” books. His poems and criticism have appeared in The Columbia Review, Whiskey and Fox, The Volta, Shampoo, and the Denver Quarterly. Carlson teaches poetry and creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh and is working on a nonfiction book, The New School Garden: Teaching Resilience and Regeneration in an Age of Climate Crisis.

Both readings will take place in Eaton Lounge, Bresee Hall, on the Hartwick College campus. The Visiting Writer Series, co-directed by Tessa Yang, assistant professor of literature, media, and writing, is hosted by the Hartwick College Department of Literature, Media and Writing. 

For more information, contact Bradley J. Fest at [email protected] or 607-431-4921.