Distinguished Visiting Writers Series: Andrew Porter and Sally Wen Mao

ASU's Virginia C. Piper Center for Creative Writing brings authors Lauren Camp and Jodie Hollander to Changing Hands Phoenix.

Join us for reading, conversation, and book signings.ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Lauren Camp is an Arab American poet. As New Mexico Poet Laureate, she has been honored with a 2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship. She is the author of eight poetry collections, most recently In Old Sky, which grew out of her experience as Astronomer-in-Residence at Grand Canyon National Park

Jodie Hollander, originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was raised in a family of classical musicians. She studied poetry in England, and her poems have appeared in journals such as The Poetry Review, The Yale Review, The Harvard Review, PN Review, The Dark Horse, The New Criterion, The Rialto, Verse Daily, The Best Australian Poems of 2011, and The Best Australian Poems of 2015. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in South Africa, a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant in Italy, a Hawthornden Fellowship in Scotland, and attended MacDowell in 2015. Her debut full-length collection, My Dark Horses, was published with Liverpool University Press (Pavilion Poetry) in 2017. Her second collection, Nocturne, was published with Liverpool & Oxford University Press in the spring of 2023 and was longlisted for the Laurel Prize in nature writing.This event is at our Phoenix location at 300 West Camelback Road, steps from the uptown Light Rail stop and directly across from the Park and Ride at Third Ave and Camelback.

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