Written Arts Program Presents

A Reading with Maya Binyam

Bard Fiction Prize winner Maya Binyam will read from her work. This reading is free and open to the public. 

Maya Binyam is the author of Hangman, which was named a 2024 National Book Foundation “5 under 35” honoree, received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize, the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, and the Dublin Literary Award. She is the recipient of the 2025 Bard Fiction Prize and a 2025-2026 Rome Prize in Literature. Her work has appeared in the Paris Review, the New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. She will join the Literature department of Claremont McKenna College as an assistant professor in Fall 2026.

Read more about Maya Binyam's work here. 

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

Time: 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema

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