The Program in Creative Writing presents The Program in Creative Writing presents emerging writers reading series 2014-15 friday, november 14 Justin Torres (fiction) September 19 February 20 with: Porochista Khakpour (fiction) Marie Howe (poetry) Samuel Butler with: with: Jared Garland Joan Bedinger Filipa Ioannou Ava Geyer Chester Dubov Cosette Gonzales Cameron Langford Ben Goldman Evan Coles Milena Phan Isabelle Laurenzi Nonny Okwelogu Yessica Martinez October 10 March 27 Brenda Shaughnessy (poetry) Darcey Steinke (fiction) with: with: Aron Wander Jane Pritchard 2014-2015 Allison Somers Tom Markham Anya Lewis-Meeks Shannon McGue David White The Emerging Writers November 14 April 24 Reading Series at FRIDAYS • 6 p.m. Justin Torres (fiction) C.A. Conrad & Labyrinth Books Labyrinth Bookstore with: Dorothea Lasky (poetry) showcases senior thesis 122 Nassau street Sam Butler with: free and open to the public. Jared Garland Susannah Sharpless students of the Program Ava Geyer Amanda Devine in Creative Writing and Cameron Langford Emily McDonald features established Isabelle Laurenzi Vivian Ludford writers as special guests.

fridays • 6 p.m. at labyrinth books, 122 nassau street free and open to the public.

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Justin Torres is the author The student writers, who are pursuing a certificate in Creative of the bestselling and highly Writing in addition to their major areas of study, will read from regarded novel We the their senior thesis projects. Each is currently working on a novel, screenplay, or collection of short stories as part of a creative thesis Animals, of which fellow for their certificate with a member of the Creative Writing faculty. novelist Michael Cunningham wrote, “We should all be grateful for Justin Torres, Samuel Butler is a Politics concentrator and a member of the a brilliant, ferocious new Men’s Varsity Water Polo Team. He grew up in Falls Church, Virginia with his mom Catherine, dad Dan, brother Jeff, and voice.” Torres’ short fiction several animals. His screenwriting thesis, advised by Steven Katz has been published in The and Christina Lazaridi, tells the story of a campus drug dealer who New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, unknowingly joins a neo-Nazi fraternity. Tin House, The Washington Post, Glimmer Train, Flaunt, Jared Garland is a Comparative Literature concentrator from and other publications. His Lexington, Massachusetts. He is currently working on his first non-fiction work has appeared novel, which tracks two mother-son relationships in a fictional near-future. Jeffrey Eugenides is advising his thesis. in The Guardian and The Photo by Winni Wintermeyer Advocate. Ava Geyer is an English concentrator from Cambridge, Massachusetts. While at Princeton she has studied writing with A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Torres was a Wallace Colson Whitehead, David Kelley, Annie Baker, and Melissa James Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and most recently a fellow Gibson. Her play This is an Elephant premiered at the Matthews at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. The Acting Studio last month. She is writing a collection of linked National Book Foundation named him one of 2012’s “5 Under 35.” stories advised by A.M Homes. He has been the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment Cameron Langford is a Politics concentrator from Davidson, North for the Arts, a Rolón Fellowship in Literature from United States Carolina. She is currently working on a collection of short stories Artists, and the Virginia Commonwealth University Cabell First about growing up in the American South. Her advisors are Susan Novelist Award. He teaches at Columbia University, Lesley Choi and Colson Whitehead. University’s Low Residency M.F.A. Program and The Writers’ Foundry M.F.A. Program at St. Joseph’s College. Torres is currently Isabelle Laurenzi is a Religion concentrator from Mountain Lakes, a 2014-15 Cullman Center Fellow at The New York Public Library. New Jersey. Her thesis, advised by A.M. Homes, is a collection of stories about how the manipulative powers of memory, imagination, and mental illness affect a family over the span of two decades. The Emerging Writers Reading Series, hosted by the seniors in the Program, is intended to present a public showcase for the work of their peers and to invite professional writers by whom the students have been inspired.