The Wolfe Institute the Ethyle R

The Wolfe Institute the Ethyle R

The Wolfe Institute The Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, in cooperation with the English Department and the MFA Intergenre Reading Series, presents Madeleine Thien and Cedar Sigo Madeleine Thien was born in Vancouver. She is the author of four books, including Do Not Say We Have Nothing, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor-General’s Literary Award for Fiction, and an Edward Stanford Prize; and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, and The Folio Prize. The novel was named a New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2016 and longlisted for a Carnegie Medal. Madeleine’s books have been translated into twenty- five languages and her essays have appeared in The Guardian, the Globe & Mail, Brick, Maclean’s, The New York Times, Al Jazeera and elsewhere. With Catherine Leroux, she was the guest editor of Granta magazine’s first issue devoted to new Canadian writing, published in 2017. The youngest daughter of Malaysian-Chinese immigrants to Canada, she lives in Montreal and New York. Cedar Sigo was raised on the Suquamish Reservation in the Pacific Northwest and studied at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute. He is the editor of There You Are: Interviews, Journals, and Ephemera on Joanne Kyger (2017), and author of eight books and pamphlets of poetry, including Royals (Wave Books, 2017), Language Arts (Wave Books, 2014), Stranger in Town (City Lights, 2010), Expensive Magic (House Press, 2008), and two editions of Selected Writings (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003 and 2005). Wednesday, April 25, 2018 6 to 7:30 p.m. Barker Room, 2315 Boylan Hall Brooklyn College Campus For information: 718.951.5847 | [email protected] | @Wolfe_Institute.

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