Date/Time
Date(s) - March 12, 2026
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Lory Student Center, University Ballroom
Categories
The Creative Writing Reading Series presents the Crow-Tremblay Alumni Reading featuring Robin Walter and Mia Heavener
LSC University Ballroom at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 12, 2026
An anonymous donor funds this annual event to celebrate the achievements of graduates of CSU’s Creative Writing MFA program. Past readers include Claire Boyles, Steven Church, Jennifer Dick, Kristin George Bagdanov, Justin Hocking, Yusef Komunyakaa, Wendy Rawlings, Molly Reid, and Felicia Zamora. Learn more about our alumni readers below.
Robin Walter (she/her/hers) was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She received a BA from Colorado College and an MFA from Colorado State University. Walter is the author of Little Mercy (Graywolf Press, 2025), which was selected by Victoria Chang as the winner of the 2024 Academy of American Poets First Book Award. Her poetry and essays have been featured in American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Seneca Review, West Branch, Wildness, and elsewhere.
Mia Heavener is of Norwegian, Polish, and Yup’ik heritage. Her novel, Under Nushagak Bluff, is a powerful mid-century tale of women, love, loss, resilience. During the summers, she commercial fishes with her family in Bristol Bay. She believes that everyone should have a good whiff of the tundra at least once in their life, if not twice. She has an MFA from Colorado State University. Her fiction has appeared in Cortland Review and Willow Springs.
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 Mary Crow and Deanna Ludwin Reading Series Endowment, the Lilla B. Morgan Memorial Endowment, the donor sponsor of the Crow-Tremblay Alumni Reading Series, and other generous support.