Michigan Author Speaker Series
The library frequently brings Michigan authors to campus to discuss and share their work with students. Below are some of the authors we have hosted.
Gordon Henry - Winter 2005
The author of the novel, The Light People, was nominated for a National Book Award in 1994 and won the American Book Award in 1995. Henry's poetry and fiction have been published in The Black Warrior Review, Mid-American Review, Stories Migrating Home, and North Dakota Quarterly, as well as in numerous other journals and anthologies.
Bonnie Jo Campbell - Fall 2005
Michael Delp - Winter 2006
Michael Delp is the instructor of creative writing at Interlochen Center for the Arts and author of The Last Good Water, Prose and Poetry 1988-2005.
John Rybicki - Fall 2006
Rybicki is a poet who teachers creative writing to children in inner city Detroit. His first book of poems, Traveling at High Speeds, appeared in 1996, and his latest collection Yellow-Haired Girl with Spider, was published in 2002.
Steve Amick - Winter 2007
Amick is the author of The Lake, The River and The Other Lake, a novel published in May 2005 and named a Michigan Notable Book for 2006.
Rachael Perry - Fall 2007
A native of Michigan, Perry’s stories have appeared in Story Quarterly, River City, Hayden’s Ferry Review and South Dakota Review. She has been nominated twice for Pushcart prizes.
Rodney Torreson - Winter 2008
Torreson is the author of three books of poetry, most recently A Breathable Light (New Issues Press, 2002). His other full-length collection is The Ripening of Pinstripes: Called Shots on the New York Yankees (Story Line Press, 1998), which was the runner-up for the Roerich Prize for first books. He also has published a chapbook, On a Moonstruck Gravel Road (Juniper Press, 1994).
Fleda Brown - Fall 2008
Fleda Brown was the winner of the 2007 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry and is a former poet laureate of Delaware.
