Events
Grand Valley Writers Series: Poetry & Nonfiction Reading w/ Katy Didden & Joanna Eleftheriou
Date and Time
Monday, February 24, 2025 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Location
Multipurpose Room, Mary Idema Pew Library
Description
Katy Didden’s first book,The Glacier’s Wake, won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize from Pleiades Press, and was published in 2013. Her new book of mixed-media erasure poems, “Ore Choir: The Lava on Iceland” (a collaboration with illustrator Kevin Tseng), was published by Tupelo Press in 2022. She has published work in journals such as Ecotone, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Image, Poetry, 32 Poems, and The Kenyon Review, and her poems have been featured on Verse Daily and Poetry Daily. Katy was a 2013-2014 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. In 2018, she participated in Banff Research in Culture’s Beyond Anthropocene residency, where she collaborated with a group of scholars, scientists, and artists to create the Almanac for the Beyond (Tropic Editions, 2019). She is currently an Associate Professor at Ball State University.
Joanna Eleftheriou is an associate professor of English at Christopher Newport University, a contributing editor of Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies and a faculty member at the Writing Workshops in Greece. Her essays, short stories, poems, and translations appear regularly in journals including Bellingham Review, CutBank, Arts and Letters, and The Common. She currently serves as Book Review editor for The Journal of Modern Greek Studies, and chair of the Membership Committee at the Modern Greek Studies Association. Joanna's first book, the essay collection This Way Back, came out in 2020 from West Virginia University Press.
Information
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