Vanderbilt Creative Writing: Visiting Writer Series
A slate of literary luminaries will be coming to Nashville this spring as part of the ongoing Gertrude & Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writer Series, hosted by the Creative Writing department.
This year’s readings, which are all free and open to the general public, will kick off on February 13 with a visit from Lysley Tenorio. The author of the acclaimed short story collection Monstress, A former Stegner Fellow, Tenorio has also received fellowships from the NEA, the MacDowell Foundation, and the Rome Prize. His novel is on the way in 2020 (and maybe we’ll be lucky enough to hear a preview!).
A week later, on February 20, current Vanderbilt Visiting Writer in Nonfiction Daisy Hernández will grace the podium. Hernández’s award-winning memoir A Cup of Water Under My Bed chronicles her coming of age between culture as a second-generation, bisexual Cuban-Colombian woman, and she is the coeditor of the anthology Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism. Her essays on race, culture, sexuality, and activism have appeared in publications ranging from The Atlantic to the New York Times.
Interested in listening in? Check out the full lineup of readings here.
Written by John Shakespear
Posted on January 14, 2020