Our next Visiting Writers Series event of the semester is right around the corner, Thursday, November 13th, 2025, at 6:30pm, in the Peter White Public Library Shiras Room. Jonathan Johnson will be reading from his work alongside NMU's own Sara Daniels, the winner of the inaugural Ron Johnson Memorial Award in Creative Writing.
NMU Visiting Writers Series:
Thursday, November 13, 2025, at 6:30pm, in the Peter White Public Library Shiras Room.
Jonathan Johnson (featuring Sara Daniels):
URL:
https://nmu.edu/english/english-department-events
Bio:
Jonathan Johnson is the author of seven books, including the new releases Pine, a collection of poems, and The Little Lights of Town, a collection of stories set in his hometown of Marquette and his first book of fiction. An NMU alum (BA, Philosophy, ‘90; MA, English/Creative Writing, ‘92), his work has been featured widely in magazines and anthologies, including Best American Poetry and Best Microfiction, and on National Public Radio. He hosts the Poet’s Nook on WNMU, Public Radio 90, and migrates between Marquette; his ancestral glen in the coastal Scottish Highlands; and the Northwest, where he is a professor in the MFA program at Eastern Washington University.
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