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Hernan Diaz
Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction
Tuesday, September 17
7:30PM
Schrott Center for the Arts

Shane McCrae
Whiting and Lannan Literary Award Winner
Monday, October 7
7:30PM
Schrott Center for the Arts

Eden Robinson
Award-Winning Indigenous Writer and Storyteller
Monday, October 28
7:30PM
Shelton Auditorium

Aisha Sabatini Sloan
Lambda Literary Award Winner
Thursday, November 7
7:30PM
Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall

Kwame Dawes
Emmy -Winning Jamaican Poet & Writer and Windham-Campbell Award Winner
Tuesday, November 19
7:30PM
Shelton Auditorium

Brandon Hobson
National Book Award Finalist and Guggenheim Fellow
January 31, 2024
7:30 PM
Schrott Center for the Arts

Leah Johnson
Reese’s Book Club YA Pick and Best-Selling Indianapolis Author
February 15, 2024
7:30 PM
Shelton Auditorium

Masha Gessen
National Book Award Winning Journalist
February 29, 2024
7:30 PM
Schrott Center for the Arts

Tiana Clark
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize Winner and Essayist
March 21, 2024
7:30 PM
Shelton Auditorium

Michael Torres
National Poetry Series Winner
April 17, 2024
7:30 PM
Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall

Jaquira Díaz
Whiting Award Winner for Nonfiction
Wednesday, September 20
7:30PM
Schrott Center for the Arts

Matthew Zapruder
Award-Winning Poet and Former Poetry Editor of The New York Times Magazine
Monday, October 2
7:30PM
Shelton Auditorium

Dantiel Moniz
National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Award and Winner of the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction
Wednesday, October 25
7:30PM
Schrott Center for the Arts

Lauren Redniss
National Book Award Finalist and Recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships
Wednesday, November 1
7:30PM
Shelton Auditorium

Lydia Millet
Pulitzer Prize Finalist and National Book Award Finalist for Fiction
Tuesday, November 28
7:30PM
Shelton Auditorium

Erika Meitner
National Jewish Book Award Winner for Poetry
Date: Wednesday, February 1, 7:30PM

Paula McLain
New York Times Best-Selling Novelist
Date: Thursday, February 16, 7:30PM

Dionne Irving
Award-Winning Author and Associate Professor of English, University of Notre Dame
Date: Tuesday, March 14, 7:30PM

Natalie Lima
PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow
Date: Wednesday, March 22, 7:30PM

Kevin Young
Poetry Editor of The New Yorker and National Book Award Finalist
Date: Thursday, April 20, 7:30PM

Rachel Zucker
Poet & Memoirist / National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
Date: Monday, February, 7, 2022, 7:30 PM

Emily Nussbaum
Pulitzer Prize-Winning TV Critic and Essayist
Date: Thursday, March 3, 2022, 7:30 PM

Percival Everett
PEN USA Literary Award and Academy of Arts & Letters Literature Award Winner
Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2022, 7:30 PM

Catherynne Valente
New York Times Best Selling Poet and Fiction Writer; Hugo Award Winner
Date: Monday, March 28, 2022, 7:30 PM

Ada Limón
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner / National Book Award Finalist
Date: Monday, April 11, 2022, 7:30 PM

Ross Gay
September 7, 7:30 PM
Schrott Center for the Arts

Colson Whitehead
September 21, 7:30 PM

Schrott Center for the Arts

Ocean Vuong

October 2, 7:30 PM

Schrott Center for the Arts

Yaa Gyasi
October 16, 7:30 PM

Schrott Center for the Arts

Monica Youn

November 2, 7:30 PM

Robertson Hall, Johnson Room

T.C. Boyle

November 14, 7:30 PM

Schrott Center for the Arts

Yusef Komunyakaa
September 13, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union, Reilly Room

Hanya Yanagihara
September 27, 7:30 PM
Schrott Center for the Arts, Butler Art Center

Robert Wrigley
October 25, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union, Reilly Room

Brenda Shaughnessy
November 1, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union, Reilly Room

Elizabeth Strout
November 9, 7:30 PM
Indianapolis Spirit and Place Celebration Signature Event
Atherton Union, Reilly Room

Meghan Daum
November 29, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union, Reilly Room

Roxane Gay
January 19, 7:30 PM
Schrott Center for the Arts

Daisy Fried
February 2, 7:30 PM
Clowes Memorial Hall, Krannert Room

Lev Grossman
February 17, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union, Reilly Room

Benjamin Percy
February 29, 7:30 PM
Schrott Center for the Arts

Claudia Rankine–Event Cancelled
March 17, 7:30 PM
Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall

Marilyn Hacker
April 5, 7:30 PM
Clowes Memorial Hall, Krannert Room

Nikky Finney
September 14, 7:30 PM
Clowes Memorial Hall, Krannert Room
Joyce Carol Oates
September 28, 7:30 PM
Clowes Memorial Hall
Gerald Stern & Anne Marie Macari
October 6, 7:30 PM
Schrott Center for the Arts
Laila Lalami
October 13, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union Reilly Room
Denis Johnson
November 11, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union Reilly Room
Dean Young

November 16, 7:30 PM
Robertson Hall, Johnson Board Room

Maurice Manning
February 10, 7:30 PM
Clowes Memorial Hall, Krannert Room

NoViolet Bulawayo
February 23, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union, Reilly Room

Lois Lowry
March 4, 7:30 PM
Clowes Memorial Hall

Louise Glück – Event Cancelled
March 25, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union, Reilly Room

David Gessner
April 1, 7:30 PM
Clowes Memorial Hall, Krannert Room

Ellen Bryant Voigt and Catherine Barnett
April 6, 7:30 PM
Clowes Memorial Hall, Krannert Room

Tracy K. Smith
September 17, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union, Reilly Room

Kaui Hart Hemmings
September 30, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union, Reilly Room

Carl Phillips
October 7, 7:30 PM
Robertson Hall, Johnson Board Room

David Levien and Brian Koppelman
October 21, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union, Reilly Room

Jonathan Franzen
October 28, 7:30 PM
Clowes Memorial Hall

Mary Szybist
November 5, 7:30 PM
Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall

Zadie Smith
November 11, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union, Reilly Room

D.A. Powell
September 10, 7:30 PM
Krannert Room, Clowes Hall
7:30 PM

Mary Kay Zuravleff
October 23, 7:30 PM
Eidson-Duckwall, Robertson Hall

Jeffrey Eugenides
September 16, 7:30 PM
Reilly Room, Atherton Union
Karen Russell
November 4, 7:30 PM
Johnson Room, Robertson Hall
7:30 PM

Alicia Ostriker
October 8, 7:30 PM
Krannert Room, Clowes Hall

Tomaz Salamun
November 19, 7:30 PM
Krannert Room, Clowes Hall

Robert Hass
September 21, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union Reily Room

Karen McElmurray
September 26, 7:30 PM

Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall

Mary Ruefle
October 3, 7:30 PM
Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall
Richard Rodriguez
October 24, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union, Reilly Room

Natasha Trethewey
October 26, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union, Reilly Room
John Green
November 1, 7:30 PM
Clowes Memorial Hall Auditorium
Richard Price
November 8, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union, Reilly Room

Michael Dahlie
January 31, 7:30 PM
Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall

George Saunders
February 8, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union, Reilly Room

Mark Halliday
February 23, 7:30 PM
Krannert Room, Clowes Memorial Hall

Alicia Erian
March 1, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union, Reilly Room

Bob Hicok
March 7, 7:30 PM
Robertson Hall, Johnson Room
Taylor Mali
March 22, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union, Reilly Room

Marilyn Chin
Monday, March 28
Krannert Room of Clowes Memorial Hall
7:30 PM

Richard Russo
April 12, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union, Reilly Room

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