March 21st<\/sup> at <\/b>Maring Hunt Library, 1-3 pm<\/em><\/h2>\n\n- Learn more<\/a> about Creative Writing in the Community<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
#2 In Print Festival of First Books<\/strong> <\/span><\/h1>\nDay 1: Wednesday, March 25 in the Student Center Ballroom<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n7:00-8:30pm\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Reading<\/p>\n
8:30-9:00pm\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Book Signing<\/p>\n
Day 2: Thur. March 26th in the Student Center Ballroom<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n7:00-7:30pm\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Broken Plate\u00a0<\/em>Featured Readers<\/p>\n7:30-8:30pm \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Panel on Literary Publishing (with Ron Mitchell from Southern Indiana Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n8:30-9:00pm\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Book Signing with Visiting Writers<\/p>\n
Poetry<\/h2>\n![\"an](\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/03\/13142635\/YS-Kamara-Headshot-e1773426821921-848x1024.jpeg\")
Yalie Saweda Kamara (Poetry)<\/p><\/div>\n
Yalie Saweda Kamara<\/strong> is a Sierra Leonean-American writer, researcher, and educator from Oakland, Ca. She is the Cincinnati and Mercantile Library Poet Laureate Emerita and the 2025 Ohio Poet of the Year. Her debut poetry collection, Besaydoo <\/em>(Milkweed Editions, 2024), was the winner of the 2022-2023 Jake Adam York Prize and is the winner of the 2025 Ohio Book Award in Poetry. She is also the editor of the anthology What You Need to Know About Me: Young Writers on Their Experience of Immigration<\/em> (The Hawkins Project, 2022). Among her honors, Kamara has received fellowships from Academy of American Poets and the National Book Critics Circle and received residencies from the Sewanee Writers Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, Djerassi, and Smith College.<\/p>\nKamara earned a PhD in Creative Writing and English Literature from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University. An assistant professor of English at Xavier University, she teaches courses in global and diasporic literature, creative writing, and hip-hop studies.<\/p>\n
For more, please visit her website: www.yaylala.com<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Geoff Peck (Fiction)<\/p><\/div>\n
Fiction<\/h2>\n
Geoff Peck<\/strong> is a writer and professor at Winona State University. He received his MFA from the University of Pittsburgh and his PhD from the University of North Dakota.<\/p>\nIn total, his fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and book reviews have appeared in over thirty journals. He was nominated for Best New American Poets<\/em> after winning the Thomas McGrath Prize by the Academy of American Poets, and his debut novel, City of Clans<\/em> was published by the University of Iowa Press.<\/p>\nFor more, please visit his website at https:\/\/www.geoff-peck.com\/.<\/a><\/p>\nCreative Nonfiction<\/h2>\n![\"a](\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/03\/13142940\/NicoleGraevLipson-AuthorPhotoHighRes.png\")
Nicole Graev Lipson (CNF)<\/p><\/div>\n
Nicole Graev Lipson<\/strong> is the USA Today<\/em> bestselling author of the memoir in essays Mothers and Other Fictional Characters<\/em>. Her writing has appeared in The Sun<\/em>, Virginia Quarterly Review,<\/em> River Teeth<\/em>, Fourth Genre<\/em>, LA Review of Books, The Washington Post, <\/em>and The Boston Globe<\/em>, among other venues.<\/p>\nHer work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, reprinted in The Best American Essays<\/em>, and shortlisted for a National Magazine Award. Lipson received her MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College and lives outside of Boston with her family.<\/p>\nFor more, please visit her website at https:\/\/nicolegraevlipson.com\/.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Ron Mitchell, editor<\/p><\/div>\n
Editing<\/h2>\n
Formerly muscle for the Internal Revenue Service, Ron Mitchell is the editor of Southern Indiana Review<\/em> and SIR Press, publisher of the Michael Waters Poetry Prize.<\/p>\nHe teaches literary editing & publishing at the University of Southern Indiana.<\/p>\n
For more, please visit the website of the Southern Indiana Review<\/a><\/em>and SIR Press<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Jill Christman, editor of River Teeth and author of The Heart Folds Early<\/p><\/div>\n
#3 River Teeth Issue & Book Launch w\/ Jill Christman<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\nThursday, April 9, 7:30 \u2013 9:00 pm
\nStudent Center, Multipurpose Room + Billiards Room<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n- Celebrating the new issue of River Teeth<\/em> <\/a>and the publication of Jill’s newest memoir, The Heart Folds Early.<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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#4 Graduate Student Reading<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\nFriday April 17 in Teachers College 1008, time TBA<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n\n- Featuring students graduating with their MA in English\/Creative Writing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
#5\u00a0 Celebrating National Poetry Month<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/03\/14133621\/Segrest.png\")
Austin Segrest<\/p><\/div>\n
Tuesday, April 21st -5-6:15 P.M. AJ 225<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n\nAustin Segrest<\/strong> is the author of the poetry collections\u00a0Groom<\/em>\u00a0(Unbound Edition Press, 2025) and\u00a0Door to Remain\u00a0<\/em>(UNT Press, 2022).\u00a0Door to Remain<\/em>\u00a0won the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize, the Wisconsin Library Association Outstanding Achievement Award for Poetry, and was a Poetry Society of Virginia North American Poetry Book Award Semifinalist.<\/p>\nBorn and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, Austin is an Associate Professor of English at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI.\u00a0Austin holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing (Poetry) from The University of Missouri (2014) and an MFA from Georgia State University (2009). A former poetry editor of\u00a0The Missouri Review<\/em>, he has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Ucross Foundation, the Hambidge Center, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the NEH. His poems can be found in\u00a0POETRY,\u00a0VQR, The Yale Review,\u00a0The Threepenny Review,\u00a0Ecotone,\u00a0The Common,\u00a0New England Review, Ploughshares,<\/em>\u00a0and many other journals. His essays can be found in\u00a0APR,\u00a0Poetry Northwest, 32 Poems,\u00a0Southern Humanities Review,\u00a0On the Seawall,<\/em> and\u00a0Pleiades<\/em>. For more, please visit his website at https:\/\/www.austinsegrest.com\/.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n![\"a](\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/03\/14133941\/Range.png\")
Melissa Range<\/p><\/div>\n
Melissa Range<\/strong> is the winner of the 2025 Vanderbilt Literary Prize for\u00a0Printer\u2019s Fist<\/em>, forthcoming from Vanderbilt University Press in 2026, as well as the\u00a0author of\u00a0Scriptorium<\/em>, a winner of the 2015 National Poetry Series (Beacon Press, 2016), and\u00a0Horse and Rider\u00a0<\/em>(Texas Tech University Press, 2010).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nShe is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and MacDowell. She teaches creative writing and American literature at Lawrence University in Wisconsin. For more, please visit her website at https:\/\/melissarange.com\/.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/03\/14134508\/McQueery.png\")
Claire McQueery<\/p><\/div>\n
Claire McQuerry<\/strong> earned her PhD from the University of Missouri, where she held a Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry. Dr. McQuerry has MFA in Poetry from Arizona State University, and a BA in English and French from Gonzaga University. She has served as the Contests Editor at\u00a0The Missouri Review<\/em>\u00a0and as International Editor for\u00a0Hayden\u2019s Ferry Review<\/em>\u00a0and has been the recipient of a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Poetry and a Dorothy Sargent Rosenburg Prize.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nHer poetry collection Lacemakers\u00a0<\/em>(Southern Illinois University Press, 2012) won the Crab Orchard First Book Prize and was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. Her poems have been published in\u00a0Tin House, Poetry Northwest, American Literary Review, Western Humanities Review,\u00a0<\/em>and other journals. She has published essays in\u00a0Creative Nonfiction\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Oregon Quarterly<\/em>, one of which was a Best American Essays<\/em> Notable Essay for 2010.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Creative Writing program at Ball State has quite a few events coming up in Spring 2026. We hope to see you there! #1 Creative Writing in the Community Workshop March 21st at Maring Hunt Library, 1-3 pm Learn more about Creative Writing in the Community #2 In Print Festival of First Books Day 1: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":17264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1655,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-community","category-our-events"],"yoast_head":"\n
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#2 In Print Festival of First Books<\/strong> <\/span><\/h1>\nDay 1: Wednesday, March 25 in the Student Center Ballroom<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n7:00-8:30pm\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Reading<\/p>\n
8:30-9:00pm\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Book Signing<\/p>\n
Day 2: Thur. March 26th in the Student Center Ballroom<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n7:00-7:30pm\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Broken Plate\u00a0<\/em>Featured Readers<\/p>\n7:30-8:30pm \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Panel on Literary Publishing (with Ron Mitchell from Southern Indiana Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n8:30-9:00pm\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Book Signing with Visiting Writers<\/p>\n
Poetry<\/h2>\nYalie Saweda Kamara (Poetry)<\/p><\/div>\n
Yalie Saweda Kamara<\/strong> is a Sierra Leonean-American writer, researcher, and educator from Oakland, Ca. She is the Cincinnati and Mercantile Library Poet Laureate Emerita and the 2025 Ohio Poet of the Year. Her debut poetry collection, Besaydoo <\/em>(Milkweed Editions, 2024), was the winner of the 2022-2023 Jake Adam York Prize and is the winner of the 2025 Ohio Book Award in Poetry. She is also the editor of the anthology What You Need to Know About Me: Young Writers on Their Experience of Immigration<\/em> (The Hawkins Project, 2022). Among her honors, Kamara has received fellowships from Academy of American Poets and the National Book Critics Circle and received residencies from the Sewanee Writers Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, Djerassi, and Smith College.<\/p>\nKamara earned a PhD in Creative Writing and English Literature from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University. An assistant professor of English at Xavier University, she teaches courses in global and diasporic literature, creative writing, and hip-hop studies.<\/p>\n
For more, please visit her website: www.yaylala.com<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Geoff Peck (Fiction)<\/p><\/div>\n
Fiction<\/h2>\n
Geoff Peck<\/strong> is a writer and professor at Winona State University. He received his MFA from the University of Pittsburgh and his PhD from the University of North Dakota.<\/p>\nIn total, his fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and book reviews have appeared in over thirty journals. He was nominated for Best New American Poets<\/em> after winning the Thomas McGrath Prize by the Academy of American Poets, and his debut novel, City of Clans<\/em> was published by the University of Iowa Press.<\/p>\nFor more, please visit his website at https:\/\/www.geoff-peck.com\/.<\/a><\/p>\nCreative Nonfiction<\/h2>\nNicole Graev Lipson (CNF)<\/p><\/div>\n
Nicole Graev Lipson<\/strong> is the USA Today<\/em> bestselling author of the memoir in essays Mothers and Other Fictional Characters<\/em>. Her writing has appeared in The Sun<\/em>, Virginia Quarterly Review,<\/em> River Teeth<\/em>, Fourth Genre<\/em>, LA Review of Books, The Washington Post, <\/em>and The Boston Globe<\/em>, among other venues.<\/p>\nHer work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, reprinted in The Best American Essays<\/em>, and shortlisted for a National Magazine Award. Lipson received her MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College and lives outside of Boston with her family.<\/p>\nFor more, please visit her website at https:\/\/nicolegraevlipson.com\/.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Ron Mitchell, editor<\/p><\/div>\n
Editing<\/h2>\n
Formerly muscle for the Internal Revenue Service, Ron Mitchell is the editor of Southern Indiana Review<\/em> and SIR Press, publisher of the Michael Waters Poetry Prize.<\/p>\nHe teaches literary editing & publishing at the University of Southern Indiana.<\/p>\n
For more, please visit the website of the Southern Indiana Review<\/a><\/em>and SIR Press<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Jill Christman, editor of River Teeth and author of The Heart Folds Early<\/p><\/div>\n
#3 River Teeth Issue & Book Launch w\/ Jill Christman<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\nThursday, April 9, 7:30 \u2013 9:00 pm
\nStudent Center, Multipurpose Room + Billiards Room<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n- Celebrating the new issue of River Teeth<\/em> <\/a>and the publication of Jill’s newest memoir, The Heart Folds Early.<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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#4 Graduate Student Reading<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\nFriday April 17 in Teachers College 1008, time TBA<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n\n- Featuring students graduating with their MA in English\/Creative Writing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
#5\u00a0 Celebrating National Poetry Month<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\nAustin Segrest<\/p><\/div>\n
Tuesday, April 21st -5-6:15 P.M. AJ 225<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n\nAustin Segrest<\/strong> is the author of the poetry collections\u00a0Groom<\/em>\u00a0(Unbound Edition Press, 2025) and\u00a0Door to Remain\u00a0<\/em>(UNT Press, 2022).\u00a0Door to Remain<\/em>\u00a0won the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize, the Wisconsin Library Association Outstanding Achievement Award for Poetry, and was a Poetry Society of Virginia North American Poetry Book Award Semifinalist.<\/p>\nBorn and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, Austin is an Associate Professor of English at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI.\u00a0Austin holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing (Poetry) from The University of Missouri (2014) and an MFA from Georgia State University (2009). A former poetry editor of\u00a0The Missouri Review<\/em>, he has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Ucross Foundation, the Hambidge Center, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the NEH. His poems can be found in\u00a0POETRY,\u00a0VQR, The Yale Review,\u00a0The Threepenny Review,\u00a0Ecotone,\u00a0The Common,\u00a0New England Review, Ploughshares,<\/em>\u00a0and many other journals. His essays can be found in\u00a0APR,\u00a0Poetry Northwest, 32 Poems,\u00a0Southern Humanities Review,\u00a0On the Seawall,<\/em> and\u00a0Pleiades<\/em>. For more, please visit his website at https:\/\/www.austinsegrest.com\/.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nMelissa Range<\/p><\/div>\n
Melissa Range<\/strong> is the winner of the 2025 Vanderbilt Literary Prize for\u00a0Printer\u2019s Fist<\/em>, forthcoming from Vanderbilt University Press in 2026, as well as the\u00a0author of\u00a0Scriptorium<\/em>, a winner of the 2015 National Poetry Series (Beacon Press, 2016), and\u00a0Horse and Rider\u00a0<\/em>(Texas Tech University Press, 2010).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nShe is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and MacDowell. She teaches creative writing and American literature at Lawrence University in Wisconsin. For more, please visit her website at https:\/\/melissarange.com\/.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nClaire McQueery<\/p><\/div>\n
Claire McQuerry<\/strong> earned her PhD from the University of Missouri, where she held a Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry. Dr. McQuerry has MFA in Poetry from Arizona State University, and a BA in English and French from Gonzaga University. She has served as the Contests Editor at\u00a0The Missouri Review<\/em>\u00a0and as International Editor for\u00a0Hayden\u2019s Ferry Review<\/em>\u00a0and has been the recipient of a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Poetry and a Dorothy Sargent Rosenburg Prize.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nHer poetry collection Lacemakers\u00a0<\/em>(Southern Illinois University Press, 2012) won the Crab Orchard First Book Prize and was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. Her poems have been published in\u00a0Tin House, Poetry Northwest, American Literary Review, Western Humanities Review,\u00a0<\/em>and other journals. She has published essays in\u00a0Creative Nonfiction\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Oregon Quarterly<\/em>, one of which was a Best American Essays<\/em> Notable Essay for 2010.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Creative Writing program at Ball State has quite a few events coming up in Spring 2026. We hope to see you there! #1 Creative Writing in the Community Workshop March 21st at Maring Hunt Library, 1-3 pm Learn more about Creative Writing in the Community #2 In Print Festival of First Books Day 1: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":17264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1655,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-community","category-our-events"],"yoast_head":"\n
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8:30-9:00pm\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Book Signing<\/p>\n
Day 2: Thur. March 26th in the Student Center Ballroom<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n7:00-7:30pm\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Broken Plate\u00a0<\/em>Featured Readers<\/p>\n7:30-8:30pm \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Panel on Literary Publishing (with Ron Mitchell from Southern Indiana Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n8:30-9:00pm\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Book Signing with Visiting Writers<\/p>\n
Poetry<\/h2>\nYalie Saweda Kamara (Poetry)<\/p><\/div>\n
Yalie Saweda Kamara<\/strong> is a Sierra Leonean-American writer, researcher, and educator from Oakland, Ca. She is the Cincinnati and Mercantile Library Poet Laureate Emerita and the 2025 Ohio Poet of the Year. Her debut poetry collection, Besaydoo <\/em>(Milkweed Editions, 2024), was the winner of the 2022-2023 Jake Adam York Prize and is the winner of the 2025 Ohio Book Award in Poetry. She is also the editor of the anthology What You Need to Know About Me: Young Writers on Their Experience of Immigration<\/em> (The Hawkins Project, 2022). Among her honors, Kamara has received fellowships from Academy of American Poets and the National Book Critics Circle and received residencies from the Sewanee Writers Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, Djerassi, and Smith College.<\/p>\nKamara earned a PhD in Creative Writing and English Literature from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University. An assistant professor of English at Xavier University, she teaches courses in global and diasporic literature, creative writing, and hip-hop studies.<\/p>\n
For more, please visit her website: www.yaylala.com<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Geoff Peck (Fiction)<\/p><\/div>\n
Fiction<\/h2>\n
Geoff Peck<\/strong> is a writer and professor at Winona State University. He received his MFA from the University of Pittsburgh and his PhD from the University of North Dakota.<\/p>\nIn total, his fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and book reviews have appeared in over thirty journals. He was nominated for Best New American Poets<\/em> after winning the Thomas McGrath Prize by the Academy of American Poets, and his debut novel, City of Clans<\/em> was published by the University of Iowa Press.<\/p>\nFor more, please visit his website at https:\/\/www.geoff-peck.com\/.<\/a><\/p>\nCreative Nonfiction<\/h2>\nNicole Graev Lipson (CNF)<\/p><\/div>\n
Nicole Graev Lipson<\/strong> is the USA Today<\/em> bestselling author of the memoir in essays Mothers and Other Fictional Characters<\/em>. Her writing has appeared in The Sun<\/em>, Virginia Quarterly Review,<\/em> River Teeth<\/em>, Fourth Genre<\/em>, LA Review of Books, The Washington Post, <\/em>and The Boston Globe<\/em>, among other venues.<\/p>\nHer work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, reprinted in The Best American Essays<\/em>, and shortlisted for a National Magazine Award. Lipson received her MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College and lives outside of Boston with her family.<\/p>\nFor more, please visit her website at https:\/\/nicolegraevlipson.com\/.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Ron Mitchell, editor<\/p><\/div>\n
Editing<\/h2>\n
Formerly muscle for the Internal Revenue Service, Ron Mitchell is the editor of Southern Indiana Review<\/em> and SIR Press, publisher of the Michael Waters Poetry Prize.<\/p>\nHe teaches literary editing & publishing at the University of Southern Indiana.<\/p>\n
For more, please visit the website of the Southern Indiana Review<\/a><\/em>and SIR Press<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Jill Christman, editor of River Teeth and author of The Heart Folds Early<\/p><\/div>\n
#3 River Teeth Issue & Book Launch w\/ Jill Christman<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\nThursday, April 9, 7:30 \u2013 9:00 pm
\nStudent Center, Multipurpose Room + Billiards Room<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n- Celebrating the new issue of River Teeth<\/em> <\/a>and the publication of Jill’s newest memoir, The Heart Folds Early.<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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#4 Graduate Student Reading<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\nFriday April 17 in Teachers College 1008, time TBA<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n\n- Featuring students graduating with their MA in English\/Creative Writing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
#5\u00a0 Celebrating National Poetry Month<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\nAustin Segrest<\/p><\/div>\n
Tuesday, April 21st -5-6:15 P.M. AJ 225<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n\nAustin Segrest<\/strong> is the author of the poetry collections\u00a0Groom<\/em>\u00a0(Unbound Edition Press, 2025) and\u00a0Door to Remain\u00a0<\/em>(UNT Press, 2022).\u00a0Door to Remain<\/em>\u00a0won the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize, the Wisconsin Library Association Outstanding Achievement Award for Poetry, and was a Poetry Society of Virginia North American Poetry Book Award Semifinalist.<\/p>\nBorn and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, Austin is an Associate Professor of English at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI.\u00a0Austin holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing (Poetry) from The University of Missouri (2014) and an MFA from Georgia State University (2009). A former poetry editor of\u00a0The Missouri Review<\/em>, he has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Ucross Foundation, the Hambidge Center, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the NEH. His poems can be found in\u00a0POETRY,\u00a0VQR, The Yale Review,\u00a0The Threepenny Review,\u00a0Ecotone,\u00a0The Common,\u00a0New England Review, Ploughshares,<\/em>\u00a0and many other journals. His essays can be found in\u00a0APR,\u00a0Poetry Northwest, 32 Poems,\u00a0Southern Humanities Review,\u00a0On the Seawall,<\/em> and\u00a0Pleiades<\/em>. For more, please visit his website at https:\/\/www.austinsegrest.com\/.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nMelissa Range<\/p><\/div>\n
Melissa Range<\/strong> is the winner of the 2025 Vanderbilt Literary Prize for\u00a0Printer\u2019s Fist<\/em>, forthcoming from Vanderbilt University Press in 2026, as well as the\u00a0author of\u00a0Scriptorium<\/em>, a winner of the 2015 National Poetry Series (Beacon Press, 2016), and\u00a0Horse and Rider\u00a0<\/em>(Texas Tech University Press, 2010).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nShe is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and MacDowell. She teaches creative writing and American literature at Lawrence University in Wisconsin. For more, please visit her website at https:\/\/melissarange.com\/.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nClaire McQueery<\/p><\/div>\n
Claire McQuerry<\/strong> earned her PhD from the University of Missouri, where she held a Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry. Dr. McQuerry has MFA in Poetry from Arizona State University, and a BA in English and French from Gonzaga University. She has served as the Contests Editor at\u00a0The Missouri Review<\/em>\u00a0and as International Editor for\u00a0Hayden\u2019s Ferry Review<\/em>\u00a0and has been the recipient of a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Poetry and a Dorothy Sargent Rosenburg Prize.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nHer poetry collection Lacemakers\u00a0<\/em>(Southern Illinois University Press, 2012) won the Crab Orchard First Book Prize and was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. Her poems have been published in\u00a0Tin House, Poetry Northwest, American Literary Review, Western Humanities Review,\u00a0<\/em>and other journals. She has published essays in\u00a0Creative Nonfiction\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Oregon Quarterly<\/em>, one of which was a Best American Essays<\/em> Notable Essay for 2010.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Creative Writing program at Ball State has quite a few events coming up in Spring 2026. We hope to see you there! #1 Creative Writing in the Community Workshop March 21st at Maring Hunt Library, 1-3 pm Learn more about Creative Writing in the Community #2 In Print Festival of First Books Day 1: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":17264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1655,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-community","category-our-events"],"yoast_head":"\n
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Among her honors, Kamara has received fellowships from Academy of American Poets and the National Book Critics Circle and received residencies from the Sewanee Writers Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, Djerassi, and Smith College.<\/p>\n Kamara earned a PhD in Creative Writing and English Literature from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University. An assistant professor of English at Xavier University, she teaches courses in global and diasporic literature, creative writing, and hip-hop studies.<\/p>\n For more, please visit her website: www.yaylala.com<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Geoff Peck (Fiction)<\/p><\/div>\n Geoff Peck<\/strong> is a writer and professor at Winona State University. He received his MFA from the University of Pittsburgh and his PhD from the University of North Dakota.<\/p>\n In total, his fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and book reviews have appeared in over thirty journals. He was nominated for Best New American Poets<\/em> after winning the Thomas McGrath Prize by the Academy of American Poets, and his debut novel, City of Clans<\/em> was published by the University of Iowa Press.<\/p>\n For more, please visit his website at https:\/\/www.geoff-peck.com\/.<\/a><\/p>\n Nicole Graev Lipson (CNF)<\/p><\/div>\n Nicole Graev Lipson<\/strong> is the USA Today<\/em> bestselling author of the memoir in essays Mothers and Other Fictional Characters<\/em>. Her writing has appeared in The Sun<\/em>, Virginia Quarterly Review,<\/em> River Teeth<\/em>, Fourth Genre<\/em>, LA Review of Books, The Washington Post, <\/em>and The Boston Globe<\/em>, among other venues.<\/p>\n Her work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, reprinted in The Best American Essays<\/em>, and shortlisted for a National Magazine Award. Lipson received her MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College and lives outside of Boston with her family.<\/p>\n For more, please visit her website at https:\/\/nicolegraevlipson.com\/.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ron Mitchell, editor<\/p><\/div>\n Formerly muscle for the Internal Revenue Service, Ron Mitchell is the editor of Southern Indiana Review<\/em> and SIR Press, publisher of the Michael Waters Poetry Prize.<\/p>\n He teaches literary editing & publishing at the University of Southern Indiana.<\/p>\n For more, please visit the website of the Southern Indiana Review<\/a><\/em>and SIR Press<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jill Christman, editor of River Teeth and author of The Heart Folds Early<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Austin Segrest<\/p><\/div>\n Austin Segrest<\/strong> is the author of the poetry collections\u00a0Groom<\/em>\u00a0(Unbound Edition Press, 2025) and\u00a0Door to Remain\u00a0<\/em>(UNT Press, 2022).\u00a0Door to Remain<\/em>\u00a0won the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize, the Wisconsin Library Association Outstanding Achievement Award for Poetry, and was a Poetry Society of Virginia North American Poetry Book Award Semifinalist.<\/p>\n Born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, Austin is an Associate Professor of English at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI.\u00a0Austin holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing (Poetry) from The University of Missouri (2014) and an MFA from Georgia State University (2009). A former poetry editor of\u00a0The Missouri Review<\/em>, he has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Ucross Foundation, the Hambidge Center, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the NEH. His poems can be found in\u00a0POETRY,\u00a0VQR, The Yale Review,\u00a0The Threepenny Review,\u00a0Ecotone,\u00a0The Common,\u00a0New England Review, Ploughshares,<\/em>\u00a0and many other journals. His essays can be found in\u00a0APR,\u00a0Poetry Northwest, 32 Poems,\u00a0Southern Humanities Review,\u00a0On the Seawall,<\/em> and\u00a0Pleiades<\/em>. For more, please visit his website at https:\/\/www.austinsegrest.com\/.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Melissa Range<\/p><\/div>\n Melissa Range<\/strong> is the winner of the 2025 Vanderbilt Literary Prize for\u00a0Printer\u2019s Fist<\/em>, forthcoming from Vanderbilt University Press in 2026, as well as the\u00a0author of\u00a0Scriptorium<\/em>, a winner of the 2015 National Poetry Series (Beacon Press, 2016), and\u00a0Horse and Rider\u00a0<\/em>(Texas Tech University Press, 2010).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Claire McQueery<\/p><\/div>\n Claire McQuerry<\/strong> earned her PhD from the University of Missouri, where she held a Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry. Dr. McQuerry has MFA in Poetry from Arizona State University, and a BA in English and French from Gonzaga University. She has served as the Contests Editor at\u00a0The Missouri Review<\/em>\u00a0and as International Editor for\u00a0Hayden\u2019s Ferry Review<\/em>\u00a0and has been the recipient of a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Poetry and a Dorothy Sargent Rosenburg Prize.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Creative Writing program at Ball State has quite a few events coming up in Spring 2026. We hope to see you there! #1 Creative Writing in the Community Workshop March 21st at Maring Hunt Library, 1-3 pm Learn more about Creative Writing in the Community #2 In Print Festival of First Books Day 1: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":17264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1655,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-community","category-our-events"],"yoast_head":"\nPoetry<\/h2>\n
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#3 River Teeth Issue & Book Launch w\/ Jill Christman<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n
Thursday, April 9, 7:30 \u2013 9:00 pm
\nStudent Center, Multipurpose Room + Billiards Room<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n
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#4 Graduate Student Reading<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n
Friday April 17 in Teachers College 1008, time TBA<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n
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#5\u00a0 Celebrating National Poetry Month<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n
Tuesday, April 21st -5-6:15 P.M. AJ 225<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n