The Program in Creative Writing presents The Program in Creative Writing presents emerging writers reading series 2014-15 friday, September 19 Porochista Khakpour (fiction) September 19 February 20 with: Porochista Khakpour (fiction) Marie Howe (poetry) Joan Bedinger with: with: Chester Dubov Joan Bedinger Filipa Ioannou Ben Goldman Chester Dubov Cosette Gonzales Nonny Okwelogu Ben Goldman Evan Coles Milena Phan 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 Sam Butler 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 Isabelle Laurenzi 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 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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Porochista Khakpour’s The student writers, who are pursuing a certificate in Creative debut novel Sons and Other Writing in addition to their major areas of study, will read from Flammable Objects (2007) their senior thesis projects. Each is currently working on a novel, was named a New York Times screenplay, or collection of short stories as part of a creative thesis “Editor’s Choice,” Chicago for their certificate with a member of the Creative Writing faculty. Tribune “Fall’s Best,” and received a 2007 California Book Award. She has also penned the introduction to a new English Joan Bedinger is an English concentrator from Atlanta, Georgia. edition of what is considered one Novelist Chang-rae Lee is advising Joan on her collection of short of the greatest modern Iranian fiction for her senior thesis in creative writing. novels, Sadegh Hedayat’s The Blind Owl (2010). Her second Chester Dubov is a senior in the History Department from novel, The Last Illusion, published earlier this year, was Brooklyn, New York. He manages WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM, Photo courtesy of Porochista Khakpour named one of Flavorwire’s “15 where he hosts a weekly punk music program called Totally Wired. Most Anticipated Books of 2014,” The Millions’ “Most Anticipated” in its He is currently working on a novel about Stuyvesant High School, “The Great 2014 Book Review,” and the Huffington Post’s “30 Books You supervised by A.M. Homes. NEED to Read in 2014.” She has been awarded fellowships from the Johns Hopkins University Ben Goldman was born in Israel and moved to the United States Writing Seminars, Northwestern University, The Ucross Foundation, when he was ten years old. He lives in New Jersey. His advisors Djerassi, and Yaddo among others. Her work has been nominated for for his senior thesis in creative writing are Joyce Carol Oates and a Pushcart Prize, and she received a 2012 National Endowment for the Patrick McGrath. Arts Literature Fellowship in Creative Writing. Her essays, features, reviews, cover stories, and columns have appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Paris Nonny Okwelogu is an English major pursuing certificates in Review, Slate, Salon, Poets and Writers, The Rumpus, Newyorker.com, and creative writing and film and video. Her senior thesis, advised by elsewhere. Christina Lazaridi, is a screenplay about the difficulties of breaking up and moving on in a tightly connected age of social media. Khakpour was born in Tehran in 1978 and raised in the greater Los Angeles area. She has taught creative writing and literature at Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, Hofstra University, Fordham University, Bucknell University, Santa Fe University of Art and Design, Fairfield University’s M.F.A. program, the University of Leipzig (where she was a Picador Guest Professor), the Bruce High Quality Foundation, The Emerging Writers Reading Series, hosted by the seniors in the and the Gotham Writers Workshop. She is currently Writer in Residence Program, is intended to present a public showcase for the work of at Bard College and Visiting Writer at Wesleyan University. She lives in their peers and to invite professional writers by whom the students New York City. have been inspired.