Visiting Writer

Ocean Vuong

Writer, Professor, Photographer
Ocean Vuong gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 5, 2024.

Writer, professor, and photographer, Ocean Vuong is the author ofOn Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, winner ofthe American Book Award, The Mark Twain Award, and The New England Book Award. The novel debuted for six weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and has since sold more than a million copies in 40 languages. A nominee for the National Book...

Michael Wasson

Poet
Michael Wasson gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on March 8, 2023.

Michael Wasson is Nimíipuu from the Nez Perce Reservation in Lenore, Idaho. His poetry collection This American Ghost (YesYes Books) was winner of the Vinyl 45 Chapbook Prize. He was a 2019 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow and a 2018 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation National Artist Fellow in Literature. His book Swallowed Light is forthcoming in spring 2022 from Copper Canyon Press. He currently lives in...

Simone White

Poet, Professor
Simone White gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center on March 17, 2021.

Simone White is the author of or, on being the other woman (Duke University Press, 2022), Dear Angel of Death (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018), Of Being Dispersed (Futurepoem, 2016), and House Envy of All the World (Factory School, 2010), the poetry chapbook, Unrest (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013), and the collaborative poem/painting chapbook, Dolly (with...

Jenny Xie

Poet & Educator
​Jenny Xie gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on March 10, 2022.

​Jenny Xie was born in Anhui province, China. She is the author of EYE LEVEL, a finalist for the National Book Award and the recipient of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets and the Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University, and THE RUPTURE TENSE, a finalist for the National Book Award and the CLMP Firecracker Award, and a recipient of the Josephine Miles Award. Her chapbook, NOWHERE TO ARRIVE, received the Drinking...