Norwich University’s Writers Series will host a rare double header when an acclaimed short-story writer and poet visit campus for public readings.
Author Caitlin Horrocks reads from her debut collection, This Is Not Your City, on Monday, Oct. 28, in the Kreitzberg Library’s Multipurpose Room. The series begins at 4:30 p.m., with poet W. Todd Kaneko reading from his soon-to-be-published book of poetry, Dead Wrestler Elegies,which deals with dead professional wrestlers.
Horrocks is a rising star in the fiction community. She lives in Michigan by way of Ohio, Arizona, England, Finland and the Czech Republic. She is author of the story collection, This Is Not Your City, which received rave reviews. Her stories and essays appear in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories 2011, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009, The Pushcart Prize XXXV, The Paris Review, Tin House, One Story and elsewhere. Her work has won awards, including the Plimpton Prize, and fellowships to the Bread Loaf and Sewanee writers’ conferences. A book sale and signing will follow her presentation.
Kaneko, also of Michigan, is author of the Dead Wrestler Elegies, forthcoming from publisher Curbside Splendor in 2014. His prose and poems have appeared in Bellingham Review, Los Angeles Review, Barrelhouse, The Normal School, The Collagist, Blackbird, The Huffington Post and many other places. He has received fellowships from Kundiman and the Kenyon Review Writer's Workshop.
This is the second event in the fall 2013 Writers Series, which is presented by the College of Liberal Arts and the Department of English & Communications.
All events in this series are free and open to the public.
