Date/Time
Date(s) - November 7, 2024
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Lory Student Center, University Ballroom
Categories
The Creative Writing Reading Series presents Writer’s Harvest, featuring Andrew Altschul, Sarah Perry, and Sasha Steensen
Lory Student Center, University Ballroom at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 7, 2024
Andrew Altschul is the author of the novelsThe Gringa, Deus Ex Machina, and Lady Lazarus.His stories and essays have appeared in publications includingEsquire,McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, One Story, FENCE,and anthologies includingBest New American Voices andO. Henry Prize Stories. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford, and a contributing editor at ZYZZYVA since 2012, this is his tenth year teaching at CSU.
Sarah Perry (she/they) is the author of the memoir After the Eclipse: A Mother’s Murder, a Daughter’s Search, which was named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. Perry has received a 2020-2022 Tulsa Artist Fellowship, the 2018 Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award, and fellowships from the Edward F. Albee Foundation, VCCA, Playa, and The Studios of Key West. She holds an M.F.A. in nonfiction from Columbia University and is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Colorado State University. Her second book, Sweet Nothings, a collection of 100 flash essays exploring candy as a vehicle of joy, resilience, and memory, is forthcoming from Mariner in February 2025.
Sasha Steensen is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Everything Awake (Shearsman) and Well (Parlor Press). Recent essays can be found at Essay Press, Interim and Tupelo Quarterly. Her ongoing, multi-media project, Overland: An Incomplete History of Three Acres and All That Surrounds, can be viewed at sashasteensen.com. Steensen serves as a poetry editor for Colorado Review, and she was named the 2023 Stern Distinguished Professor.
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.