Visiting Writers Series

Kalamazoo Valley's "About Writing" Visiting Writers series is coordinated by English instructor Julie Stotz-Ghosh, Ph.D., and offers students the opportunity to talk with professional writers and listen to their work.

The visits take place in the Student Commons Theater, Room 4240, at the Texas Township Campus. All events are free, open to the public and include a 10 a.m. craft talk and a 2:15 p.m. reading by the author.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6
Tom Montgomery Fate
Memoir - The Long Way Home & Cabin Fever: A Suburban Father's Search for the Wild
Tom Montgomery Fate is a professor emeritus at College DuPage in Glen Ellyn IL, where he taught creative writing and literature courses for more than 30 years. He is the author of six books of creative nonfiction, including The Long Way Home: Detours and Discoveries, a travel memoir (Ice Cube Press, 2022), Cabin Fever, a nature memoir (Beacon Press), and Steady and Trembling, a spiritual memoir (Chalice Press).

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3
Nancy Eimers
Poetry - new chapbook: Human Figures
Nancy Eimers is the author of four previous poetry collections, Oz, A Grammar to Waking, No Moon, and Destroying Angel. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and she has been the recipient of a Nation "Discovery" Award, a Whiting Writers Award, and two NEA Fellowships. She lives in Kalamazoo.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2023
Ada Limón | Virtual event at 3 P.M.
Poetry - The Hurting Kind
Ada Limón is the author of six books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Limón is also the host of the critically-acclaimed poetry podcast, The Slowdown. Her new book of poetry, The Hurting Kind, is out now from Milkweed Editions. She is the 24th Poet Laureate of The United States.

TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 2023
Angeline Boulley
Fiction - Firekeeper's Daughter
Angeline is an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. She is a storyteller who writes about her Ojibwe community in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She is a former Director of the Office of Indian Education at the U.S. Department of Education. Angeline lives in southwest Michigan, but her home will always be on Sugar Island. Firekeeper's Daughter is her debut novel, and was an instant number one New Work Times Bestseller.