ESU Visiting Writers Series welcomes poet Linzi Garcia

Join us as we welcome back one of our own! The Fall 2025 Visiting Writers Series will kick off with Emporia poet and ESU alum Linzi Garcia.

Linzi Garcia lives in Emporia, where she serves as the publicist and poetry editor for Meadowlark Press and as a board member for House of Morrow. While earning her MA in creative writing from Emporia State University, she worked as the graduate assistant to Poet Laureate Emeritus of Kansas Kevin Rabas and as an editorial assistant with Bluestem Press and Flint Hills Review. During that time, she also worked as a composition professor at the university, a reporter for The Emporia Gazette, and a bartender at Mulready's Pub, where she still works. Linzi is the author of Thank You and Cravings, and the co-author of Live a Great Story and While Away: Travel Poems. Linzi is a recipient of a 2023 NextGen Under 30 Kansas Award.

Wednesday, September 17
6:30 PM
ESU Plumb Hall, room 408
FREE and open to the public

Sponsored by the ESU Creative Writing Program, ESU School of Humanities + Social Sciences, ESU Performing Arts Board, and Quivira Student Creative Writing Organization.

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