Thursday, September 20
Brian Sneeden/ Fiction Reading
UConn Bookstore, Storrs Center, 6:00 pm
Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the UConn Bookstore.
Brian Sneeden is the author of the poetry collection Last City (2018). A 2018 PEN/Heim recipient, his poems and translations have appeared in Asymptote, Beloit Poetry Journal, Harvard Review, TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, Virginia Quarterly Review, and other publications, and translations of his poems have been published in international magazines in Greek, Italian, Albanian, and Serbian. His translation of Phoebe Giannisi’s poetry collection, Homerica (2017) was selected by Anne Carson as a favorite book of 2017 in The Paris Review. Brian received his MFA from the University of Virginia, where he held a Poe/Faulkner Fellowship in creative writing and served as poetry editor for Meridian. He is the senior editor of New Poetry in Translation.
For more information, contact: The Creative Writing Program at sean.forbes@uconn.edu