2025 Walter Harding Lecture

New York Times best-selling novelist Jeff VanderMeer will deliver the 2025 Walter Harding Lecture at SUNY Geneseo. VanderMeer is the author of Hummingbird Salamander; the Borne novels (Borne, The Strange Bird, and Dead Astronauts); and the Southern Reach series (Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance, and Absolution), the first volume of which won the Nebula Award and Shirley Jackson Award and was adapted into a movie by Paramount Pictures.

The talk will take place on Wednesday, September 24 at 4:15 p.m. in Doty Recital Hall. The Harding Lecture is free and open to the public.

Over a 35-year career, VanderMeer has been a four-time World Fantasy Award winner and 20-time nominee. For 11 years, he served as the co-director of Shared Worlds, a unique teen SF/fantasy writing camp he helped found, located at Wofford College in South Carolina.

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