Zell Visiting Writers: Mark Doty and Fernanda Eberstadt

Literati is proud to be partnering with the Helen Zell Writers Program to host writers Mark Doty and Fernanda Eberstadt at the University of Michigan Museum of Art Helmut Stern Auditorium.

Mark Doty is the author of eight previous books of poetry and four books of prose. His many honors include the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, and, in the UK, the T. S. Eliot Prize. He is a professor at Rutgers University and lives in New York City.

Fernanda Eberstadt is the author of four previous novels and one book of nonfiction. Her essays and criticism have appeared in “The New Yorker,” “The New York Times Magazine,” “Vogue,” “Vanity Fair,” and “Commentary.” She lives in London with her husband and two children.