The University of Connecticut’s Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce poet Heidi Lynn Staples will read from her work for all who are interested on Thursday, March 8th, 2018. The reading will take place at 6:00 pm in the UConn Bookstore in Storrs Center.
Heidi Lynn Staples’ debut collection Guess Can Gallop was selected by Brenda Hillman as a winner of the New Issues Poetry Prize. She is the author of three other collections including A*A*A*A* (forthcoming from Ahsahta, 2018). With the poet Amy King, she co-edited Poets for Living Waters, an international poet response to the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, and Big Energy Poets: Ecopoetry Thinks Climate Change. She teaches at the MFA Program at the University of Alabama.
The Creative Writing Program aims to introduce and engage both undergraduate and graduate students in various writing courses including fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, drama, screenwriting, and more. These courses are offered to students of all majors in order to engage and include all that are interested in joining this growing creative writing community at the University of Connecticut.
The reading, co-sponsored by the UConn Creative Writing Program and the UConn Bookstore, is free and open to the public. The UConn Bookstore is located at One Royce Circle, 101 Storrs Center, and can be contacted at 860-486-8525. For more information, please visit the Creative Writing Program’s website at www.creativewriting.uconn.edu.
For more information, contact: Bailey Shea at bailey.shea@uconn.edu