WSU’s Visiting Writers Series welcomes Whiting Award winner Brian Blanchfield
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC OR WATCH ON YOUTUBE LIVE
About the event
Brian Blanchfield is the author of three books of poetry and prose, including Proxies: Essays Near Knowing and A Several World, which received, respectively, a 2016 Whiting Award in Nonfiction and the 2014 Academy of American Poets’ James Laughlin Award. His recent work appears in The Oxford American, Grand, Tin House, A Public Space, The Map Is Not the Territory, Northwest Review, Textual Practice, and Chicago Review. A finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir and the recipient of fellowships from the Howard Foundation and the Idaho Council for the Arts, Blanchfield teaches in the Bennington Writing Seminars and directs the MFA writing program at the University of Idaho.
Common Reading credit available.
Don’t miss the exhibits on display at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art during Brian Blanchfield’s visit.