Poets are next presenters at LTCC Writer's Series

Lake Tahoe Community College’s Writers’ Series continues on Friday, November 13 at 7:00 p.m. in the Roberta Mason Library with visits from poet and journalist Ilyse Kusnetz, and teacher, farmer, and poet Julia Shipley.

The two writers will read selections from their works, answer audience questions about their writing process, and sign copies of their books for sale that night. This event is free and the public is welcome to attend!

Kusnetz is the author of Small Hours, winner of the 2014 T.S. Eliot prize from Truman State University Press, and The Gravity of Falling (2006). She earned her Masters in Creative Writing from Syracuse University and her Ph.D. in Feminist and Postcolonial British Literature from the University of Edinburgh. Her poetry has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, The Cincinnati Review, Crazyhorse, Stone Canoe, and Rattle. She teaches at Valencia College in Orlando.

Shipley is the author of a full-length poetry collection, The Academy of Hay (Bona Fide Books, 2015), winner of the Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize, and a long-form lyric essay, Adam's Mark, (Plowboy Press, 2014), which was selected as a Boston Globe Best New England Books of 2014. She is also the author of four poetry chapbooks including One Ton Crumb (CC&B, 2014), First Do No Harm (Honeybee Press, 2014), Herd (2010), and Planet Jr. (2012). Shipley’s work is often concerned with place, the fate of landscapes, agrarian ideals, and stories that track things from their germinations through their harvests and beyond.

LTCC’s Writers’ Series is committed to providing a cultural outlet for students and the community by hosting free readings, discussions, craft talks and workshops with nationally known, award-winning authors, as well as poetry slams, open mic nights and student readings. Over the past 14 years, LTCC has welcomed nationally-acclaimed poets and writers such as Carolyn Forché, Denise Duhamel, Luis Rodriguez, H.L. Hix, Sholeh Wolpé, Chris Abani, Dorianne Laux, Francisco Jimenez, Juan Felipe Herrera, Nathalie Handal, Tracy Ross and Lama Marut. For more information, contact LTCC Writers’ Series coordinator Suzanne Roberts at robertss@ltcc.edu.