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Writers Here & Now Wraps Fall Semester with Alumnae Reading

July 13, 2010 English

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MFA Alumnae Kara Candito, Jehanne Dubrow, and Taije Silverman will read from their work on December 2.

The Department of English and the MFA Program in Creative Writing are pleased to welcome back three poets to cap off the Fall 2009 Writers Here & Now reading series. Please join us on December 2 at 7:00PM in Ulrich Recital Hall, Tawes. A reception at the Jiménez-Porter Writers' House, ground floor, Dorchester Hall will precede the reading at 6:15PM.

Kara Candito (MFA '04) is the author of Taste of Cherry (University of Nebraska Press), winner of the 2008 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. Her poems and reviews have appeared or will appear in such journals as Blackbird, AGNI, Prairie Schooner, The Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, Nimrod, Contrary Magazine, Best New Poets 2007, Diode, New South, and The Florida Review. She has received awards for her poetry, including an Academy of American Poets Prize and scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She is currently a PhD student in creative writing at Florida State University.

Jehanne Dubrow (MFA '03) is the author of two poetry collections, From the Fever-World, winner of the Washington Writers' Publishing House Poetry Competition (2009), and The Hardship Post (2009), winner of the Three Candles Press Open Book Award, and a chapbook, The Promised Bride (Finishing Line Press 2007). A third collection, Stateside, will be published by Northwestern University Press in 2010. Her poetry, creative nonfiction, and book reviews have appeared in journals such as Poetry, The Hudson Review, The New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Barrow Street, Gulf Coast, Blackbird, Shenandoah, and on Poetry Daily. She also received a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is now Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.

Taije Silverman (MFA '05) is the author of House are Fields (Louisiana State University Press, 2009). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Five Points, Shenandoah, Antioch Review, and elsewhere. Her translations of poems by Paolo Valesio are forthcoming in Pleiades. She has won several first place awards from the Academy of American Poets, and merited fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. From 2005-2007, Silverman was the Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry at Emory University.