Fall 2006 Readers
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 at 5:30 p.m.
M.D. Anderson Library, Level 2
The Honors College Commons
Hayan Charara is a first-year PhD student in poetry. He was born in Detroit, Michigan. He is the author of two poetry books, The Alchemist's Diary, and The Sadness of Others. He is also a woodworker.
Stacey Higdon was born and raised in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where she attended the University of Alabama, receiving a BA in English. Her poetry has appeared in the Marr's Field Journal and has won a Gold Circle Award from Columbia University. She enjoys Houston if for no other reason than it offers her proof that life exists beyond the borders of Mississippi.
Russel Swensen received his BA in English from the University of Utah and an MFA in Writing from the California Institute of the Arts. A frequent contributor to the LA Weekly, he has published most recently in the Salt Lake City Weekly, the Black Clock, and Quarterly West. He lives in the Montrose area with his girlfriend and his rat terrier, Zulu.
Coert Voorhees is a graduate of Middlebury College and the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship for translating selected works by the Chilean playwright Jorge Díaz. His screenplay The Shooter was a winner at the 2003 Telluride IndieFest, and his fiction has appeared in the anthology Don't Abuse the Muse. His first Young Adult novel Frankie Towers is forthcoming from Hyperion in 2007.
Wednesday, October 4, 2006 at 5:30 p.m.
M.D. Anderson Library, Level 2
The Honors College Commons
Rich Levy is a poet whose work has appeared in Boulevard, Gulf Coast, High Plains Literary Review, Intro, The Texas Observer, The Texas Review, and other magazines. Since 1995 he has been Executive Director of Inprint, a nonprofit literary arts organization that champions creative writing and reading in Houston. He received his MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop and has taught literature and creative writing at the University of Iowa, University of St. Thomas (Houston), and Cornell College (Mount Vernon, IA).
Randall Watson received the 2004 Blue Lynx Poetry Award for his book The Sleep Accusations, which is available from Eastern Washington University Press. His poetry has appeared in many journals, including Chelsea, Confrontation, The Georgia Review, Lyric, North American Review, Shenandoah, and Western Humanities Review. His first book, Las Delaciones del Sueno, was published in a bi-lingual edition by the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Mexico. He is currently teaching a poetry workshop at Inprint.
Miah Arnold is a fiction writer completing work on her PhD at the UH Creative Writing Program. She was awarded a 2006 Inprint Barthelme Memorial Fellowship in non-fiction, and her fiction has appeared in literary journals, most recently, Confrontation; her story "Snap" will appear in the spring edition of Painted Bride Quarterly. Miah has worked as a genre editor for both Gulf Coast and Lyric Poetry Review. She has led creative writing workshops in Houston and Galveston, and is currently teaching fiction at Inprint.
Wednesday, September 13, 2006 at 5:30 p.m.
M.D. Anderson Library, Level 2
The Honors College Commons
John Weir is the author of two novels, The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket (Harper & Row, 1989), which won the Lambda Literary Award for Best First Novel, and What I Did Wrong (Viking, 2006). His work has appeared in various journals and magazines, and has been published in several anthologies. Since 1993, he has taught English and Creative Writing at Queens College/CUNY, where he is Associate Professor of English. He is currently Visiting Professing in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston.
Robert Phillips is a John and Rebecca Moores Professor of English here at the University of Houston. He is the author of eight books of poetry, and twenty-two other books of fiction and criticism. His latest poetry collection, Circumstances Beyond our Control, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press, and has been nominated for next year's Pulitzer Prize.
