435 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
USA
Catherine Barnett is the author of two collections of poetry: Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced and The Game of Boxes, which was the recipient of the 2012 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her awards and honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Whiting Writers’ Award. She also works as an independent editor and as Writer-in-Residence at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan where she teaches writing to mothers in the shelter system. Barnett has been the Visiting Poet at Barnard College and teaches at the New School and New York University.
Jeffrey Shotts is Executive Editor at Graywolf Press, an independent publisher of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He acquires and edits Graywolf’s poetry list as well as works of nonfiction, essay, literary criticism, and translation. Authors whose titles Shotts has acquired have received the Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature, and books he has acquired and edited have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, among other distinctions. He lives in Minneapolis.
Literati will be on-site with select titles for sale.
Room location in Angell Hall is TBD.
