2024 Living Writers
This fall, Living Writers features 10 life-changing works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by 10 acclaimed writers. Everyone we've encountered in these books is hankering after something, whether it's community, connection, freedom, safety, education, beauty, happiness, transcendence, or something else.
We've compiled a list of events where you can hear from the authors of our selected books.
Living Writers: Ruth Simmons
Thu, Oct 17, 2024 4:30pm to 5:45pm
Ruth J. Simmons is the former president of Smith College, Brown University, and Prairie View A&M, Texas’s oldest HBCU, and the former vice provost of Princeton University. The Washington Post...
Living Writers: Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Thu, Oct 24, 2024 4:30pm to 5:45pm
Marie Mutsuki Mockett was born and raised in California to a Japanese mother and an American father. She’s the author of two acclaimed novels, Picking Bone from Ash, and, most recently, The Tree...
Living Writers: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Thu, Oct 31, 2024 4:30pm to 5:45pm
Ingrid Rojas Contreras is a native of Bogotá, Colombia. Her memoir, The Man Who Could Move Clouds, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics...
Living Writers: Lydi Conklin
Thu, Nov 7, 2024 4:30pm to 5:45pm
Lydi Conklin’s debut story collection, Rainbow, Rainbow, has been described as “captivating and brimming with love for queer life in all its weird glory.” Conklin is the recipient of a Stegner...
Living Writers: Samrat Upadhyay
Thu, Nov 14, 2024 4:30pm to 5:45pm
Samrat Upadhyay is the first Nepali-born fiction writer to be published in the United States. His debut story collection, Arresting God in Kathmandu, won a Whiting Writers’ Award, and his second,...