Lesley MFA Winter 2023 Reading Series

Lesley University’s Winter Reading Series will bring acclaimed and award-winning authors to campus from January 6_–_14. All readings will be held at University Hall and are free and open to the public. They will also be accessible via Zoom. The public is also invited to panels on crafting picture books and writing for young people. Find the full lineup with Zoom links on Lesley University's website. Faculty and visiting writer books will be available for sale after each reading.

Deaf, genderqueer poet Meg Day will headline the series with a reading on Saturday, Jan. 7 at 6:30 pm. Day, an assistant professor at North Carolina State University, is the author of “Last Psalm at Sea Level,” winner of the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award and a past recipient of the NEA Fellowship in Poetry. Day’s writing can be found or is forthcoming in Best American Poetry, The New York Times, Poetry Magazine, among others. The line-up of writers will read from their work in nonfiction, poetry, fiction, writing for stage and screen plus writing for young people. Best-selling young adult authors Jason Reynolds and Sara Farizan along with graphic novelist John Rozum and memoirist Janet Pocorobba will read from their work. The series culminates with sessions from graduating MFA students.