Written Arts Program Presents
A Reading with Christina Milletti
Monday, April 24, 2023
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
On Monday, April 24 at 5pm in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), writer Christina Milletti will read from her work. Introduced by Mary Caponegro, and followed by a Q&A, the reading is free and open to the student body. 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Christina Milletti’s novel Choke Box: a Fem-Noir won the Juniper Prize for Fiction from the University of Massachusetts Press. Her fiction, articles, and reviews have appeared in many journals and anthologies, such as Best New American Voices, The Iowa Review, The Master's Review, Denver Quarterly, The Cincinnati Review, Studies in the Novel, Zeta, The Brooklyn Rail, American Letters & Commentary, Experimental Fiction and the Buffalo News (among other places). She is an Associate Professor of English at the University at Buffalo where she is currently the Executive Director of UB’s Humanities Institute. She also co-curates the Exhibit X Fiction Series, a reading series based at Hallwalls for students and the wider WNY community. Recently, she won the Patron’s Prize from Thornwillow Press who published her winning short story, “The Girling Season,” in a special letterpress chapbook edition. It is one of the stories in her new (almost completed) collection called Now You See Her.
Mary Caponegro is the Richard B. Fisher Family Professor in Literature and Writing at Bard. She is the author of the short story collections The Star Café, Five Doubts, The Complexities of Intimacy, and All Fall Down, as well as selected works in translation. Professor Caponegro is a contributor to The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Tin House, Black Warrior Review, Salt Hill, Epoch, Fairy Tale Review, Sulfur, Gargoyle, and Iowa Review, and is a contributing editor for Conjunctions.
Read more about Christina's work here.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium