Todd Kaneko, assistant professor of writing, is the author of
Writers Series offers two-for-one showcase
Jan 19, 2015
The Grand Valley Writers Series is offering a two-for-one showcase
with authors Todd Kaneko and Beth Peterson discussing their works on
Thursday, January 22, from 6-7:30 p.m. in the Cook-DeWitt Center on
the Allendale Campus.
W. Todd Kaneko, assistant professor of writing at Grand Valley,
is the author of “The Dead Wrestler Elegies." His poems have
appeared in Bellingham Review, Los Angeles Review, Barrelhouse,
The Normal School, The Collagist and many other journals and
anthologies. He has received fellowships from Kundiman and the Kenyon
Review Writers Workshop.
Beth Peterson is a non-fiction writer and an assistant professor
of writing at Grand Valley. Peterson has a master’s degree of arts
from Wheaton College, an MFA from the University of Wyoming and a
doctorate in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of
Missouri. A wilderness guide before she began writing, Peterson is
just finishing her first book of lyric essays, which are set in a
disappearing glacial landscape in Norway. Peterson has recent work in
Fourth Genre, River Teeth and Passages North.
For more information about the Grand Valley Writers Series,
contact Oindrila Mukherjee, Writers Series coordinator, at (616)
331-8034 or [email protected].
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