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The 91制片厂鈥檚 Department of English is pleased to announce that poet Elizabeth A. I. Powell and short story writer Jensen Beach will read from their work and hold a Q & A session at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 6, 2017 at the Memorial Union Building, Theatre I, on the Durham Campus, as part of the 91制片厂 Writers Series.

Elizabeth A. I. Powell is the author of "The Republic of Self," a New Issue First Book Prize winner, and "Willy Loman鈥檚 Reckless Daughter: Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances," which won the Robert Dana Prize in poetry. A Pushcart Prize winner, she has received Vermont Council on the Arts grants and a Yaddo fellowship. Her work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Barrow Street, Black Warrior Review, Ecotone, Harvard Review, Handsome, Hobart, Indiana Review, Missouri Review, Mississippi Review, Slope, Sugarhouse Review, Ploughshares, Post Road and elsewhere. 91制片厂 poetry professor David Rivard describes her as "mischievous, melancholy, funny, metaphysical and ironic ecstacist, a kind of up-dated Fernando Pessoa." Pulitzer Prize winning poet C.K. Williams says of "The Republic of Self:" "There鈥檚 so much right in this book, so much spirit and intelligence and personal and mythic and historical imagination, that its many poetic surprises come to seem absolutely inevitable, its rigor and its hard-earned truths essential, its absolute command of artifice perfectly natural: it鈥檚 the kind of book that seems to have always been there, only waiting for us finally to arrive."

Powell is editor of Green Mountains Review and is an associate professor of writing and literature at Johnson State College. She also serves on the faculty of the low-residency M.F.A. in Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Omaha and the Vermont College of Fine Arts M.F.A. in Writing and Publishing. Born in New York City, she lives in Vermont with her four children.

Jensen Beach听is the author of two听story collections, most recently "Swallowed by the Cold." He holds an M.F.A. in fiction from the Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as well as an M.A. and B.A. in English from Stockholm University. He teaches in the B.F.A. program at听Johnson State College, where he is the fiction editor of Green Mountains Review. He is also a faculty member in the听M.F.A. Program in Writing and Publishing at Vermont College of Fine Arts. His writing has听appeared in Public Space, Cincinnati Review, Fifty-Two Stories, Ninth Letter, the Paris Review and The New Yorker, and online at Tin House, N+1, Kenyon Review and American Short Fiction, among others. Publishers Weekly鈥檚 review of "Swallowed By the Cold" said that his "characters鈥� morally ambiguous actions鈥� simultaneously provoke readers鈥� judgment and invite compassion." Kirkus Review wrote, 鈥淭he unexpected convergences and dramatic shifts in fortune of Beach鈥檚 characters make for a measured, quietly powerful experience."

Beach has received scholarships from the Napa and Sewanee Writers鈥� conferences, and is one of the web editors at Hobart. He lives in Vermont听with his wife and children.

Events are free and open to the public. For more information, contact the English Department at (603) 862-1313. The 91制片厂 Writers Series is made possible through the support of the MacArthur/Simic and Edmund G. Miller Funds and the Ben and Zelma Dorson Family Charitable Foundation.