[Yale-readings] 9-24: Xhenet Aliu and Nancy Kuhl Reading at SCSU

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Xhenet Aliu and Nancy Kuhl
Thursday, September 24th at 8 p.m. in Southern Connecticut
State University's Engleman Hall's D-Wing room 253

Xhenet Aliu received a B.A. in English from Southern Connecticut State University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington.  Her fiction has appeared in magazines such as Glimmer Train and The Barcelona Review, and she has been awarded various travel grants and scholarships for her writing, most recently by the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, for which she served as a staff member in 2009.  A former newspaper writer, waitress and teacher, among other occupations, she is now resident of Brooklyn, N.Y., where she currently works for a private investigation agency and is completing a collection of short stories and a novel.


Nancy Kuhl's second full-length collection of poems, Suspend, is forthcoming in 2010 from Shearsman<http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/home.html> Books<http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/home.html>; her first book, The Wife of the Left Hand, was published in 2007. She is the author of three chapbooks, The Nocturnal Factory<http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/page-nocturnal.html>, published in 2008 by Ugly Duckling Presse<http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/>, Means of Securing Houses &c. from Mischief by Thunder and Lightning<http://www.propolispress.com/meansofsecuring.html>, published by Propolis<http://www.propolispress.com/> Press<http://www.propolispress.com/> in February 2009, and In the Arbor, which was a winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Prize and was published by Kent State University Press<http://upress.kent.edu/books/Kuhl.htm>. She is Curator of Poetry for the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke<http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/> Rare Book and Manuscript Library<http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/> at Yale University. With Richard Deming she is co-editor of Phylum Press<http://www.phylumpress.com/>, a small poetry publisher.



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