Previous Seasons
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
Kevin Prufer
Professor of Creative Writing, University of Houston; and prize-winning poet
Date: Monday, October 18, 2021, 7:30 PM
G. Willow Wilson
Hugo and American Book Award-winning graphic novelist and journalist
Date: Tuesday, November 9, 2021, 7:30 PM
Hanif Abdurraqib
New York Times best-selling poet, essayist, and cultural critic
Date: Thursday, December 2, 2021, 7:30 PM
Marie Howe
January 21, 7:30 PM
Shelton Auditorium
Carmen Machado
February 5, 7:30 PM
Shelton Auditorium
NOTE: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the remainder of the series was cancelled
Madeline Miller
September 9, 7:30 PM
Shelton Auditorium
sam sax
October 3, 7:30 PM
Shelton Auditorium
Meg Wolitzer
October 24, 7:30 PM
Shelton Auditorium
Terrance Hayes
November 11, 7:30 PM
Shelton Auditorium
Susan Orlean
November 21, 7:30 PM
Shelton Auditorium
Gregory Orr
January 22, 7:30 PM
Schrott Center for the Arts
Lauren Groff
January 31, 7:30 PM
Schrott Center for the Arts
Claudia Rankine
February 19, 7:30 PM
Schrott Center for the Arts
C. Dale Young
March 20, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union Reilly Room
Eula Biss
April 4, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union Reilly Room
André Aciman
April 16, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union Reilly Room
Brando Skyhorse
September 6, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union, Reilly Room
Lynda Barry
September 27, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union, Reilly Room
Donika Kelly
October 4, 7:30 PM
Schrott Center for the Arts
Sharon Olds
October 15, 7:30 PM
Schrott Center for the Arts
Teju Cole
November 13, 7:30 PM
Schrott Center for the Arts
Kazim Ali
February 1, 7:30 PM
Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall
Ali Eteraz
February 15, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union, Reilly Room
Danez Smith
March 22, 7:30 PM
Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall
Edmund White
April 3, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union, Reilly Room
Billy Collins
April 18, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union, Reilly Room
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
Marlon James
January 23, 7:30 PM
Schrott Center for the Arts, Butler Arts Center
Emily St. John Mandel
February 20, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union, Reilly Room
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
March 16, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union, Reilly Room
Charlie Jane Anders
April 6, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union, Reilly Room
Diane Seuss
April 18, 7:30 PM
Robertson Hall, Ford Salon
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
Victor Hernandez Cruz
January 28, 7:30 PM
Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall
Lorna Dee Cervantes
February 12, 7:30 PM
Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall
Tim O’Brien
March 6, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union, Reilly Room
D. Nurkse
March 26, 7:30 PM
Robertson Hall, Johnson Board Room
Cheryl Strayed
March 31, 7:30 PM
Clowes Memorial Hall
Jesmyn Ward
April 8, 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
Chuck Klosterman
January 31, 7:30 PM
Reilly Room, Atherton Union
Jennifer Egan
March 20, 7:30 PM
Reilly Room, Atherton Union
Major Jackson
February 4, 7:30 PM
Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall
Albert Goldbarth
April 1, 7:30 PM
Johnson Room, Robertson Hall
7:30 PM
Laura Kasischke
February 27, 7:30 PM
Krannert Room, Clowes Hall
Julianna Baggott
April 17, 7:30 PM
Johnson Room, Robertson Hall
Margaret Atwood
September 12, 7:30 PM
Reilly Room, Atherton Union
Patricia Smith
September 19, 7:30 PM
Johnson Room, Robertson Hall
Peter Steinhart
October 8, 7:30 PM
Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall
Eduardo Corral
October 24, 7:30 PM
Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall
Yiyun Li
November 8, 7:30 PM
Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall
Robert Pinsky
November 28, 7:30 PM
Reilly Room, Atherton Union
Anne Waldman,
February 8, 7:30 PM
Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall
Nicole Krauss
March 6, 7:30 PM
Reilly Room, Atherton Union
Maile Meloy
April 3, 7:30 PM
Atherton Union Reilly Room
Simon Armitage
February 21, 7:30 PM
Krannert Room, Clowes Memorial Hall
Linda Gregg
March 27, 7:30 PM
Krannert Room, Clowes Memorial Hall
Jhumpa Lahiri
April 16, 7:30 PM
Reilly Room, Atherton Union
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