S237. Ada Limón, Heather McHugh, and Ellen Bryant Voigt: A Reading
Saturday, April 2, 2016
3:00 pm to 4:15 pm
Participants
Heather McHugh is the author of poetry, translation, and essays, and she has taught in distinguished writing programs. Since 2011, her efforts to help lifelong caregivers of family members who are chronically ill or severely disabled prompted the establishment of Caregifted.org (and Undersung.org).
Ellen Bryant Voigt is the author of eight books of poetry, including most recently Headwaters, and two collections of craft essays. In 1976 she created the first low-residency MFA program for writers. Among her many honors include grants from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation, an appointment as the Poet Laureate of Vermont and as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and a MacArthur Fellowship. She is currently on faculty at the MFA program for writers at Warren Wilson College.
Ada Limón is the author of four books of poetry, including Bright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Poetry, a finalist of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, and one of the Top Ten Poetry Books of the Year by The New York Times. Her other books of include Lucky Wreck, This Big Fake World, and Sharks in the Rivers. She serves on the faculty of Queens University of Charlotte Low Residency MFA program, and the 24Pearl Street online program for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. She also works as a freelance writer splitting her time between Lexington, Kentucky and Sonoma, California.