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CATEGORIES:Arts,Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series
DESCRIPTION:Hilary Plum is the author of the novel Strawberry Fields\, winn
 er of the Fence Modern Prize in Prose (2018)\; the work of nonfiction Watch
 fires (2016)\, winner of the 2018 GLCA New Writers Award\; and the novel Th
 ey Dragged Them Through the Streets (2013). She has worked for a number of 
 years as an editor of international literature\, history and politics. She 
 teaches creative writing at Cleveland State University and in the NEOMFA pr
 ogram and is associate director of the CSU Poetry Center. With Zach Savich 
 she edits the Open Prose Series at Rescue Press. Recent fiction\, essays\, 
 poetry\, and criticism have appeared in Bookforum\, Full Stop\, Consequence
 \, Poetry Northwest\, the Mississippi Review\, the Seneca Review\, Big Big 
 Wednesday\, and elsewhere.\n\nChen Chen is the author of When I Grow Up I W
 ant to Be a List of Further Possibilities\, which was longlisted for the Na
 tional Book Award and won the A. Poulin\, Jr. Poetry Prize\, the GLCA New W
 riters Award\, and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. The collection was a
 lso a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and named one o
 f the best of 2017 by The Brooklyn Rail\, Entropy\, Library Journal\, and o
 thers. His work has appeared in many publications\, including Poetry\, Tin 
 House\, Poem-a-Day\, The Best American Poetry\, Bettering American Poetry\,
  and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. Recently\, his work has been tr
 anslated into French\, Greek\, Spanish\, and Russian. Poets & Writers Magaz
 ine featured him in their Inspiration Issue as one of “Ten Poets Who Will C
 hange the World.” He has received fellowships from Kundiman\, Lambda Litera
 ry\, and the Saltonstall Foundation. He earned his MFA from Syracuse Univer
 sity and is pursuing a Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing as an off-site
  Texas Tech University student. With the poet Sam Herschel Wein\, he edits 
 the journal\, Underblong. He lives in frequently snowy Rochester\, NY with 
 his partner\, Jeff Gilbert\, and their pug dog\, Mr. Rupert Giles.
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LOCATION:Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts\, Recital Hall
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SUMMARY:JRVWS – Hilary Plum & Chen Chen Reading
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