Written Arts Program Presents

A Reading with Billie Chernicoff and Lindsay Hill

On Monday, September 22nd at 6pm in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), writers and Bard alumni Lindsay Hill and Billie Chernicoff will read from their work. The reading is free and open to the student body. 

Nationally celebrated writer Lindsay Hill — who has expanded the boundaries of flash-fiction to novel proportions — is returning after 12 years to Bard College on Monday, September 22nd. Coming off a west-coast speaking tour of Spokane, Portland, and Seattle, the L.A.-based Hill is circling back in support of his latest book, Tidal Lock, which is published by the independent press McPherson & Company, and which has been critically hailed as “complex, mysterious, intriguing” and “the best, most inventive novel I’ve read in ages.” The area holds a special fascination for the San Francisco-native who attended Bard College, and whose latest protagonist is named “Olana” after Frederick Church’s iconic house. Hill’s first novel, Sea of Hooks, won the PEN USA Fiction Award, among other laurels, and Tidal Lock is a finalist for two more.

Hill is being joined by fellow Bard-alum Billie Chernicoff—"A poet of astonishing lyricism and elemental beauty." Chernicoff was born in Detroit and educated at Bard College. Among her books and chapbooks of poetry are The Red Dress, The Pleasures, and Amoretti. Chernicoff’s recent fifth collection of acclaimed lyrical poetry is Minor Secrets from Black Square Editions. For several years she co-edited The Doris, a magazine of new writing and translation, and in 2021 she published a print journal called Salt.  

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For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium

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