The University of Connecticut’s Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce the first 2015 Long River Reading Series at 7pm on Tuesday, February 10, at the UConn Co-op at Storrs Center. The LRRS features writers from the UConn writing community, pairing undergraduate and graduate writers with professors and visiting writers. Everyone is welcome! Featuring Abby Fagan, Matthew Ryan Shelton and Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah
Abby Fagan is a PhD student in the English Department at UConn. Her focus is gender performance and appeals to citizenship in anti-alcohol literature written in the nineteenth-century U.S. She is currently working on a memoir project about her father, whom she took care of for six months before he died in 2009.
Matthew Ryan Shelton is currently a second-year MA/PhD student in the Department of English, specializing in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Poetics of Ireland and the UK, as well as Poetic Translation Practice and Creative Writing. He holds an MA in Creative Writing from Queen’s University Belfast. His work has appeared in such publications as The Open Ear, Critical Bastards Magazine, The Swarthmore Review, and Coldfront. Matthew is the current Chief Operating Officer of the Irish Studies Alliance at UConn.
Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah is a graduating senior at the University of Connecticut. He is currently studying Urban and Community Studies and English. He anxiously awaits graduation. Emmanuel enjoys hot carbs, brightly colored chapbooks, and the long sigh at the end of a good book.
For more information, contact: Miller Oberman at miller.oberman@uconn.edu