Writers Here & Now: Louise Glück (poetry) and Sigrid Nunez (fiction)
Writers Here & Now: Louise Glück (poetry) and Sigrid Nunez (fiction)
Louise Glück is the author of twelve books of poems, including, most recently, Faithful And Virtuous Night, and a collection of essays. Her many awards include the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. She teaches at Yale University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Sigrid Nunez has published six novels, including, most recently, Salvation City. Her most recent book is Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. Her many awards include the Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers Award, the Association for Asian American Studies Award for best novel of the year, a Whiting Writer's Award, a Rome Prize Fellowship, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship. In 2003, she was elected as a Literature Fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Nunez has taught at Amherst College, Smith College, Columbia University and the New School, and she has been on the faculty of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. This coming fall she will be the Visiting Distinguished Author in the MFA writing program at LIU Brooklyn.
Writers Here & Now is co-sponsored by the Jiménez-Porter Writers' House, Creative Writing Program, and the Center for Literary and Comparative Studies.