Creative Writing Events
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Distinguished Writers Series with Shara McCallum Wednesday, October 8, 6pm - 8:00pm From Jamaica, and born to a Jamaican father and Venezuelan mother, Shara McCallum is the author of seven books published in the U.S. and U.K., including Behold, forthcoming in 2026, No Ruined Stone, winner of the 2022 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry, and Madwoman, winner of the 2018 OCM Bocas Caribbean Poetry Prize and the 2018 New England Poetry Club Motton Prize. Recognition for her work includes a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Musgrave Medal, a Witter Bynner Fellowship, an NEA Poetry Fellowship, the Oran Robert Perry Burke Nonfiction Award, and the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, among others. She is presently an Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State. |
Contact
Creative Writing press and event inquiries can be directed to Jen DeGregorio, Associate Director of Creative Writing: jdegreg1@binghamton.edu