10th Annual Arts Festival Calendar of Events Litterature Readings Schedule

Kyra Auffermann, Kathryn Dill, Sarah Lunnie, and Katherine Moulton

Readings by Faculty Writers: Suzanne Matson (fiction)

Ms. Matson is the author of three novels, "The Tree-Sitter", "A Trick of Nature", and "The Hunger Moon", and two volumes of poetry, "Durable Goods", and "Sea Level".

Readings by Faculty Writers: Carlo Rotella (creative nonfiction)

Carlo Rotella's most recent book is "Cut Time: An Education at the Fights".  His work has appeared in the Washington Post Magazine, The American Scholar, Harper's, DoubleTake, the New York Times, and The Best American Essays. 

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Bob Chibka (fiction)

Mr. Chibka teaches fiction writing and eighteenth-century British literature. His most recent publication, a long short story, “Sic Transit,” appeared in the inaugural issue of the online Boston College arts journal "Epicenters".  He’s also been trying, lately, to convince the world that Henry Fielding depicted characters’ minds.

Amy Boesky (creative nonfiction) 

Ms. Boesky is currently teaching Creative Nonfiction and Coming of Age in the English department. She has published fiction for children and young adults and is currently at work on two projects: a critical study of the role of reading in the lives of adolescent girls and a young adult novel. She’ll be reading today from a recently completed memoir.

Elizabeth Kirschner (poetry)

Poet and lyricist, Elizabeth Kirschner has published three volumes of poetry, "Twenty Colors", "Postal Routes", and "Slow Risen Among the Smoke Trees", all with Carnegie-Mellon University Press. Her chapbook, "The Red Dragon", was published by Permafrost.  She has two books forthcoming: "My Life as a Doll"  (Autumn House Press, July ’08), and "Surrender to Light"  (Cherry Grove Editions, August ’09).

Susan Monsky (fiction)

Ms. Monsky teaches in the English department and coaches writers preparing manuscripts for editors. Her monthly online review column appears in “Ocean of Translation,” newsletter of the Japanese translation company, Sunflare. The David and Thelma Silent Picture Starring Tootie Bug and Featuring Mister Jim is a remembered fiction.    

Andrew Sofer (poetry)

Mr. Sofer teaches drama and creative writing in BC’s English department. His poems have received awards from Southwest Review, Atlanta Review, The Lyric, Iambs & Trochees, and New England Poetry Club, and have appeared in "North American Review", "Poetry International", "The Formalist", "Dogwood", "Margie", "BC Magazine", and elsewhere. 

Lad Tobin (creative nonfiction)

Mr. Tobin has published two books of creative nonfiction about teaching creative nonfiction—"Writing Relationships and Reading Student Writing: Confessions, Mediations, and Rants". His autobiographical essays have appeared in "Fourth Genre" and "Slow Trains". With Eileen Donovan-Kranz, he co-edits "Fresh Ink: Essays From BC’s First-Year Writing Seminar".

Paul Doherty (creative nonfiction) 

Mr. Doherty teaches in the English department where his interests include James Joyce, composition pedagogy, and creative nonfiction writing. He is a contributor to "Boston College Magazine" and directs the Lowell Humanities Lecture Series.

Robert Kern (poetry)

Mr. Kern teaches courses in 19th and 20th century American poetry and American Nature Writing, has published articles in a wide range of journals, and is the author of "Orientalism", "Modernism, and the American Poem". His own poems have appeared in the British journals "Agenda" and "Stand", and in the Mexican journal "El Corno Emplumado".

Eileen Donovan-Kranz (fiction)

Ms. Donovan-Kranz, Associate Director of First-Year Writing, writes fiction and essays. Short fiction has appeared in "Stone Table Review", "Storyglossia", "South Dakota Review", and "Pikeville Review", among others, and personal essays have appeared in "Boston College Magazine". She enjoys teaching First-Year Writing, Creative Nonfiction and Creative Writing.

Clare Dunsford (creative nonfiction) 

An associate dean in the College of Arts & Sciences at BC, Clare Dunsford recently published a memoir about her life as the mother of a boy with fragile X syndrome: "Spelling Love with an X: A Mother, A Son, and the Gene That Binds Them" (Beacon Press).

Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield (fiction)  

Mr. Kaplan-Maxfield is the author of four novels, various short stories, and plays. His one-man play "The Real Thoreau" is now being reworked for production at the Harwich Junior Theater on Cape Cod. In his other life he builds houses.

John Anderson (poetry)

John M. Anderson's chapbook "Dictionary Quilt" came out last year from Pudding House; he will be reading from a new manuscript, "Old Masters: Iraq War Edition", which he has just completed with the invaluable help of BC professor-poets Kim Garcia and Sue Roberts.

Maxim D. Shrayer (creative nonfiction)

Mr. Shrayer is Professor of Russian and English and the author, most recently, of "Waiting for America: A Story of Emigration".