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Sandra Lim is the author of two collections of poetry, Loveliest Grotesque (Kore, 2006) and the recently published collection The Wilderness (W.W. Norton, 2014), winner of the 2013 Barnard Women Poets Prize, selected by Louise Glück and the 2015 Larry Levis Reading Prize from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her work is included in the anthologies Gurlesque (Saturnalia, 2010), The Racial Imaginary (Fence, 2015), and Among Margins: An Anthology on Aesthetics (Ricochet, 2015). She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Getty Research Institute. She grew up in the Bay Area, was educated at Stanford, and received a doctorate in English at UC Berkeley where she wrote her thesis on James Schuyler. She teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.
Fanny Howe is the author of over 20 books of poetry and prose. She has been called “one of the boldest lyric poets in the United States,” and her work alights upon political, economic, spiritual, and personal subjects with equal intensity. Her most recent collection, Second Childhood (Greywolf, 2014) was a finalist for the 2014 National Book Award. She has received, especially in recent years, great recognition for her work, including a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Bunting Fellowship, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize (for Selected Poems, 2001), and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2009). She has been shortlisted for the Griffin Prize twice. Howe taught for years at several universities, including Tufts and MIT, before taking a job at UC San Diego, where she is professor emerita. After teaching as Lannan Chair in Poetry at Georgetown from 2010 – 2012, Howe was the inaugural Visiting Writer at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, in 2012. Her papers are housed at Stanford University. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The readings are at 7 PM in 126 Voorhies Hall, and are free and open to the public.