Join us Tuesday, January 24, 2023, at 7 p.m. Eastern (4 p.m. Pacific) for a reading with Kathy Fagan and Debra Monroe. Kathy will be reading from her most recent poetry collection Bad Hobby and Debra will be reading from her collection of essays It Takes a Worried Woman. Registration is required! Please register (below) to receive the Zoom link.
Kathy Fagan’s sixth poetry collection is Bad Hobby (Milkweed Editions, 2022). Her previous book, Sycamore (Milkweed, 2017), was a finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Award. She’s been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, an Ingram Merrill fellowship, residencies at The Frost Place, Yaddo and MacDowell, and was named Ohio Poet of the Year for 2017. Fagan’s work has appeared in venues such as The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Poetry, The Nation, The New Republic, Kenyon Review, The Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, The Pushcart Prize Anthology and Best American Poetry. She co-founded the MFA Program at The Ohio State University, where she teaches poetry and co-edits the Wheeler Poetry Prize Book Series for The Journal and OSU Press. For more information, please visit her website.
Bad Hobby can be purchased here.
Debra Monroe is the author of two story collections, The Source of Trouble (winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award) and A Wild, Cold State; two novels, Newfangled and Shambles; two memoirs, On the Outskirts of Normal and My Unsentimental Education; and, recently, a collection of essays, It Takes a Worried Woman. She has published more than forty stories and essays in a wide variety of publications including the New York Times, Longreads, The American Scholar, Salon, Guernica, and her essays have been cited as Notable in Best American Essays many times. She is the editor of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: An Anthology and teaches in the MFA Program at Texas State University. For more information, please visit her website.
It Takes a Worried Woman can be purchased here.
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