Date/Time
Date(s) - September 19, 2024
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Lory Student Center, University Ballroom
Categories
The Creative Writing Reading Series presents Meredith Talusan and Paul Yoon
Lory Student Center, University Ballroom at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 19, 2024
Meredith Talusan received a Creative Capital Award, a MacDowell Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize Special Mention for fiction in 2023; her stories appear or are forthcoming in Guernica, Kenyon Review, Boston Review, Epoch, The Rumpus, Grand, Catapult, and BLR. Her debut memoir, Fairest, was a 2020 Lambda Literary Award finalist and named a best book of the year by multiple venues. She has contributed to ten other books and written articles for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and WIRED, among many outlets. She has received journalism awards from GLAAD, The Society of Professional Journalists, and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. She is also the founding executive editor and current contributing editor at them., Condé Nast’s LGBTQ+ digital platform.
Paul Yoon‘s most recent book is The Hive and the Honey (Simon & Schuster, 2023), a finalist for The Story Prize, a New York Times Editor’s Choice, and a Time Top Ten Fiction Book of 2023. His other books include Run Me to Earth (Simon & Schuster, 2020), longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction; The Mountain (Simon & Schuster, 2017), named a best book of the year by NPR, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal; Snow Hunters (Simon & Schuster, 2013), winner of the Young Lions Fiction Award in 2014; and Once the Shore (Sarabande Books, 2009), winner of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, and The Best American Short Stories. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives in the Hudson Valley, New York, with his wife and dog.
The CSU Creative Writing Reading Series is made possible by the Organization of Graduate Student Writers, the CSU Department of English, the College of Liberal Arts, CSU Libraries, the Lilla B. Morgan Memorial Endowment, the donor sponsor of the Crow-Tremblay Alumni Reading Series and other generous support. Learn about how you can support the series online here.