Writer reads in series organized by Princeton students in collaboration with Labyrinth Books
What/Who: Reading by writer Tiphanie Yanique and four seniors in Princeton’s Program in Creative Writing, part of the Emerging Writers Reading Series
When: Friday, November 13 at 6:00 p.m.
Where: Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau St., Princeton
Free and open to the public
Photo by Debbie Grossman
(Princeton, NJ) Fiction writer and poet Tiphanie Yanique and four seniors in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University will read from their work on Friday, November 13 at Labyrinth Books. The reading is part of the Emerging Writers Reading Series, which showcases senior thesis students of the Program in Creative Writing with established writers as special guests. Featuring student writers Bennett Alvaro, Shruthi Deivasigamani, Lin King, and Emily Reardon, the reading begins at 6:00 p.m. at the bookstore, 122 Nassau Street. The event is free and open to the public.
Tiphanie Yanique is the author of the novel, Land of Love and Drowning, which won the 2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Award from the Center for Fiction. It was also listed by NPR as one of the Best Books of 2014. Yanique is also the author of a collection of stories, How to Escape from a Leper Colony, which won her a listing as one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” in 2011. She was named one of BookPage’s “14 Women to Watch Out For” in 2014 and was one of the Boston Globe‘s “16 cultural figures to watch.” She is a recipient of the 2011 Bocas Award for Caribbean Fiction, the Boston Review Prize in Fiction, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship, and an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, Best African American Fiction, The Wall Street Journal, and American Short Fiction, among others. Yanique is from the Virgin Islands and is a professor in the M.F.A. program at the New School in New York City, where she is the 2015 recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award. Her latest collection of poems, Wife, was published recently by Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
The four seniors, who are pursuing a certificate in Creative Writing in addition to their major areas of study, will read from their senior thesis projects. Each is currently working on a novel, a screenplay, translations, or a collection of poems or short stories as part of a creative thesis for their certificate. Thesis students in the Program in Creative Writing work closely with a member of the faculty, which includes Jeffrey Eugenides, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chang-rae Lee, Paul Muldoon, James Richardson, Tracy K. Smith, Susan Wheeler, Edmund White, and a number of distinguished lecturers.
The series, hosted by the seniors in the program, is intended to present a public showcase for the work of the thesis students and give the senior class the opportunity to read with and learn from established writers they admire.
