Our 2017 Guest Reader bios appear below. For workshop presenters, please navigate here.


TheresaWilliamsThursday, November 2, 7:30 pm, Prout Chapel

Theresa Williams is a longtime faculty member at BGSU and holds an MFA in fiction from the university. She teaches Native American literature, workshops in poetry, fiction, and graphic novels, and other courses in literature and creative writing. Williams’s work has appeared in The Sun, Midwestern Gothic, New Poetry from the Midwest, and many additional publications online and in print. Her novel The Secret of Hurricanes was published by MacAdams/Cage in 2002, and her chapbook, The Galaxy to Ourselves, was published in 2012.

 

 

 

ColetteArrandFriday, November 3, 7:30 pm, Bowen-Thompson Student Union Theater

Colette Arrand is a student at the University of Georgia, studying English Literature. She is the author of Hold Me Gorilla Monsoon (Opo Books & Objects, 2017). She is the founding editor of The Wanderer and the non-fiction editor of Heavy Feather Review. She currently lives in Athens, GA, where she runs Fear of a Ghost Planet, a zine press and distro.
 

 

 

 

MaryWeemsSaturday, November 4, 4:30 pm, Bowen-Thompson Student Union Theater

Mary E. Weems is a poet, playwright, and social/cultural foundations scholar. Her work is inspired by the human condition and by what is happening to Black people in America around issues of race, gender and class. Weems has authored or edited thirteen books and her plays and/or excerpts have been published or produced for nearly two decades. She received a Wick Chapbook award in 1996, and a Cleveland Arts Prize Emerging Artist Award for Literature in 2015, solidifying a long and illustrious Ohio connection. Her most recent book is Blackeyed: Plays and Monologues (2015).

 

 

KimberlyDarkAs part of the ISPI Conference, Friday, November 3, Bowen-Thompson Student Union Theater

Kimberly Dark is the author of seven performance scripts and several educational programs regarding the body in culture. She is a regular contributor to outlets such as Ms and Everyday Feminism. Poetry has appeared in such publications as So to Speak and Journal of Lesbian Studies, and she has contributed to several volumes on poetry inquiry. She now lectures at California State University, San Marcos.

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